{"id":204,"date":"2009-12-25T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=204"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:00:44","slug":"additional-remedial-instructions-to-the-several-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Article 1: D. ADDITIONAL REMEDIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SEVERAL STATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hereby instruct our State Legislatures to:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 Adopt State Sovereignty Resolutions that assert the power of the State to treat as null and void all federal legislation that exceeds the enumerated powers of Congress under the Constitution; and to enforce such resolutions by the interposition of the State to protect its citizens from unconstitutional federal legislation.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0 Demonstrate principled leadership: Strengthen the State&#8217;s power to protect its citizens; and completely and forever eliminate the most common means of federal coercion by refusing all federal funds that are not specifically authorized by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Encourage the true and proper \u201cgeneral welfare\u201d of the State by repealing state welfare legislation.\u00a0 Thus, leave the citizens free to build strong families, exercise true individual charity and rebuild actual community through voluntary association rather than government coercion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hereby instruct our State Legislatures to: 1.\u00a0\u00a0 Adopt State Sovereignty Resolutions that assert the power of the State to treat as null and void all federal legislation that exceeds the enumerated powers of Congress under the Constitution; and to enforce such resolutions by the interposition of the State to protect its citizens from unconstitutional federal legislation. 2.\u00a0\u00a0 Demonstrate principled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-sovereignty-and-the-declaration-of-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}