Congressional Testimony – What Is the Re-Empowerment of the States Amendment? On November 16th, Foundations of Liberty Board Member, W. David Hemingway, testified before a congressional subcommittee on possible answers to states’ rights through the Re-Empowerment of the States Amendment to the Constitution. Below is the testimony presented to the committee. The several States may repeal, in […]
Category: Liberties Lost
How we have lost liberties by losing states rights and allowing the federal government to enter every aspect of our lives
Marijuana Policy Is States’ Rights Issue
In withdrawing federal protection for transgendered students, the Trump administration paid tribute to our federalist system. “The president believes that this is a states’ rights issue,” said White House spokesman Sean Spicer, “We are a states’ rights party. The president in a lot of issues believes that these issues are states’ rights issues.” Yet, hours […]
Trump Returns Public Land to the People
Countering decades of federal public land grabs, President Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments. SALT LAKE CITY — President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history. The administration shrank Bears […]
Presidential Executive Order Tyranny
Can A President Turn The U.S. Into A Dictatorship Through Executive Order? Over the course of 8 months in 1962, President John Kennedy signed a number of Executive Orders which gave certain dictatorial powers to appointed bureaucrats in the event a “National Emergency” should be declared by the President. At whichever seated president’s discretion “in […]
Executive Order 13603
Executive Order 13603 — National Defense Resources Preparedness By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and as Commander in […]
Executive Order 12919
Executive Order 12919—National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (64 Stat. 798; 50 U.S.C. App. 2061, et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and […]
Executive Order 11490
Executive Order 11490 — Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies WHEREAS our national security is dependent upon our ability to assure continuity of government, at every level, in any national emergency type situation that might conceivably confront the nation; and WHEREAS effective national preparedness planning to meet such an emergency, including a […]
Executive Order 11051 Director of the Office of Emergency Planning
Executive Order 11051—Prescribing Responsibilities of the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning in the Executive Office of the President WHEREAS national preparedness must be achieved and maintained to support such varying degrees of mobilization as may be required to deal with increases in international tension, with limited war, or with general war including attack […]
Executive Order 11005 Commerce Commission
Executive Order 11005—Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Interstate Commerce Commission By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. l of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), it is hereby ordered as follows: SECTION 1. Scope. The Interstate Commerce Commission, shall prepare national emergency […]
Executive Order 11004 Housing Administrator
Executive Order 11004—Assigning Certain Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), it is hereby ordered as follows: SECTION 1. Scope. The Housing and Home Finance […]