Hi moms! Convention of States Michigan is here for you! Timeout with COS Moms! Grab your tea, coffee or cocktail! It’s time for your timeout!
Have your children ever resisted you? Have you ever attempted to enact standards or routines in your home - only to find your children simply ignore the orders or passively-aggressively disobey you?
Though your children share your home, are equal citizens in your home and enjoy the liberties and due process of your home, they are required to obey the central authority of the home. And those rules come from you!
The individual states in our beloved union operate the same way as the children in our homes. Our states are equal branches of the government. Our state governments were designed to operate as an equal check and balance to our federal government. The 10th Amendment of the Constitution affirms that anything not expressly listed as a federal power is supposed to be left to state authority. That’s a lot of authority.
Moms -read the 10th Amendment in its full language HERE.
However, a reverse application of the 10th Amendment says this: there are some responsibilities that belong to our federal government. We have agreed to unify under a central government and allow it some authority over our states and the citizens.
Therefore, we cannot use the 10th Amendment or nullify federal law in an effort to curb federal overreach. We cannot allow our states to simply spurn federal statutes. Our states are not allowed to cite its authority as a method to ignore federal laws or federal overreach that the states disagree with.
Our framers wrote Article V to amend the Constitution, to allow our states to propose and ratify amendments. This is the proper, legal and orderly way of curbing an overburdensome federal government.
Read more on the notes and arguments of our framers HERE.
Article V was always intended to be an integral part of our Constitutional process!
Now you know, moms. Make sure your kids know too!
