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“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution;” — U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3.
Every government officer is required to swear or affirm their support of the Constitution of the United States. Yet, very few of these officers follow that oath. My first segment is an interview with Sheriff Richard Mack of the Mack/Printz v. USA case, where the Supreme Court recognized that states are “independent and autonomous within their proper sphere of authority.” That means when the federal government goes beyond the powers, We the People have consented to, the states not only have a right to stand up and say no, they have a duty to do so. They don’t need to beg the federal courts for protection from the federal government; we just need to hire state officials with the knowledge that they are not servants of Washington, D.C., and the fortitude to actually stand. In my second segment, I look at some of the recent infringements of our rights, and the example of the Loudon County Sheriff standing up against a school board that is out of control.
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