It's Time to Nullificate Obamacare

The 'Compact Theory' is not, as one might normally assume, the idea that the country would be better off if Nancy Pelosi were stuffed into a trash compactor. Although I have to admit it was the first thing I thought about. Instead it's the idea the founding fathers kept in mind when crafting the U.S. Constitution and one that many of us have forgotten and our Government is ignoring.

Simply stated, the Compact Theory is that the States, United in one federation, have entered into a compact with each other. The federal government is the creation of the states and as such the states have the power to decide for themselves when a federal law intrudes into the rights of its citizens. In Obamacare we now have another unconstitutional federal mandate where Washington is reaching down, getting its fingers into the personal lives of every man woman and child in the country. We cannot be content to hope that the next congress will repeal this offensive government power grab... it's time the individual states stood up for the rights of their people.

The idea of state nullification of an unconstitutional federal law is as old as the Constitution itself. Thomas Jefferson, Vice President in 1778, then supported Virginia and Kentucky in passing legislation which basically told the federal Government where they could stuff their fancy shmancy 'Aliens and Sedition Acts'. When Washington starts thinking it can tell individual people how they can live their lives, exercise their liberty, or pursue their happiness then it falls to the states to defend them against such tyranny.

Just because Obamacare's been signed into law doesn't mean the fight's over. Already the attorneys general of several states have either filed suit, or joined with each other in filing suit against our federal Government on grounds that it's unconstitutional (which it is). Other states have either already passed legislation rejecting the individual mandate of Obamacare or are putting forth ballot initiatives to do the same. They recognize the individual mandate of Obamacare as an attack on our personal freedoms and are exercising both their right to challenge an unconstitutional law and their responsibilities to protect their citizens from it.

While Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker has decided not to join his peers in protecting their constituents rights, calling any such effort “political gamesmanship” various efforts to get a ballot initiative in front of the voting public have come up in the Georgia state Senate and House, each failing to either pass or reach the 2/3 majority vote needed to amend the state constitution.

The federal Government, with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid at the helm are intent on imposing their laws, their judgement, and their decisions about our lives upon us. Now that Obamacare is signed into law, our own state is what stands between us and a tyrannical imposition on our liberties cloaked in health care for the masses. Even though measures like the “Georgia Health Care Freedom Act”, (SB 317) have failed to find their ways into the voting booth or on the governor's desk in the past, we will have an opportunity when we vote for our state legislative representatives to install those candidates who will take more seriously the rights of the people.