Last week I attended a political meeting where Mr. Connor Boyak talked about the five steps for federalism. Any inaccuracies in my notes are my fault. I think I need to learn how to take shorthand.
Connor Boyak is from the Libertus Institute. It is a Utah this organization that monitors Utah politics. The website is tinyurl.com. Federalism is when political parties create an alliance.
1. Financial independence:
Utah spent 4.4 billion of federal money. After all the money the student from the federal government conditions are attached. The more we use the less we have of self-government. He’s observed that 95% of the information shared by the media is incorrect. Media will usually misquote or miscue information about a bill. They have their own agenda and controversy stimulates more sales for the media.
Obama’s ‘race to the top’ was an opportunity for states to compete for federal money. But noted to be in the running those days had to adopt common core. The Utah State Board rushed common core through without input from school boards or teachers, parents, etc. Normally, when something is to be passed, this should be 30 days for public review. That condition was not met A lawsuit is now being set against education department for not following proper procedure.
2. Develop a political spine:
Article four of the Constitution means that the government needs the particularity in order to conduct a search. The Utah contestant for Miss America, the video when she felt she was molested by the NSA on a flight from Utah. They got a lot of views. Because of her experience and the mistreatment by the NSA, the state of Texas started passing a law that the NSA could not do the type of body searches that was done to the contestant. As the bill was going through the Texas system, the NSA sent a private letter to certain legislators that said that the bill is creating emergency situation whereby the NSA would need to shut down all flights to and from Texas. Texas folded under the pressure.
Usually when bills are introduced to the legislature, those bills will often have notes attached to the bills from attorneys giving feedback on the constitutionality of those bills. Sometimes attorneys when they present notes and feedback on different bills may intentionally miss guide the legislators. One example, an attorney quoted part of the Constitution. He said that a certain bill was not constitutional. He then quoted the constitution to support his claim in his note to the legislature. However when he quoted the constitution he put in “…” for part of the quote. The attorney took out the words of the constitution that contained the words where a state could do something that didn’t conflict with the constitution.
3. Teamwork:
When you have a chance look at the history document resolution of Virginia and Kentucky. This is an example of teamwork. Another example of teamwork is that with so many states passing marijuana in their individual states the federal government was getting more and more pressure not to enforce the law at the federal level.
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4. Eternal diligence:
One time Utah and other states were against the real ID law, but were enacted later when states were not as diligent on their defenses.
5. Accountability:
Even though Congress had 11% popularity rating, 96.4 of the same people were reelected. We often add like having a handout and cleaning to have our rights and we need to insist they have a right
Clean the inner vessel:
The way we protect our liberty is to concentrate on what happens in the state and local level, not the federal. This would mean to decentralize the federal government. We need to allow individuals, their individual freedoms, even if we object those freedoms. Many Utah citizens want the government to control their neighbors’ behavior. In the past conservatives use the government to support their ideals on marriage. Now is the pendulum swings back that same government is forced to set opposite opinion.
Federalism is not the end goal is the process.