In my 87 years of life, one of the most important lessons I learned early, taught to me by my late brother who wasted the tremendous talent God blessed him with: It’s easy to become happy while you’re drinking, but New Year’s Day you wake up with the same problems and a headache.
So, have a blessed New Year, Senator Chandley and Merrimack State Legislators Notter, Boyd, Healey, Mooney, McGough, Thomas, Murphy, and Rung.
This upcoming legislative season may seem a bit like that to you all. Maybe a headache? But I have to keep hammering at you for what I believe to be important to our state and nation today, that will hopefully someday bear the fruit of liberty for posterity tomorrow.
One of the foundational pillars of liberty, given us by Solomon in Proverbs, that I believe is an integral part of the formula for liberty – so needed and so forgotten today is, “Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin is a reproach to any people.” It goes without saying that this includes both constitutes and public servants.
With all that said, I’d like to introduce to you a video on another vital ingredient to ensure liberty. A short video of how the state of New Mexico defied federal abuse of power with state Nullification (Less than ten minutes).
I suggest that when you consider issues of federal abuse of power, always remember the states created the federal government. Thank God that our Founders have blessed the states with this power that has become like an endangered species, to limit federal abuse of power in the 2nd paragraph of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution:
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
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, …“
I have underlined your responsibilities as state legislators, bound to this supreme law of the land by oath, that any laws not made in pursuance of the U.S. Constitution are null and void and unconstitutional.
Rather than separation of parties, liberty demands both parties meet on the rock-solid foundation of liberty, within the limits of the Constitution based on Judaeo/Christian ethics – the foundation of all civilized order.
You have an awesome responsibility to “we, the people” of NH. May God bless you in all your efforts to promote continued prosperity and ordered liberty in our state.
Sincerely & Respectfully
