Brian Nieves, Missouri State Senate Message Regarding the Limiting Principles of the U.S. Constitution

Brian Nieves says to Obama and the hard-left Congressional Democrats, "Leave us alone!"

The States are sovereign, and the federal government is breaching the contract between us and them with their big government policies. The Tenth Amendment is clear, if the authority is not given to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, and not prohibited to the States, the authority belongs to the States.

Madison wrote in Federalist 45: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

Madison wrote in Federalist 39: Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

For the federal government to extend beyond the limitations of the U.S. Constitution is purely and simply tyrannical.

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