Save Our States Project

[Swift Silver]

Save Our States: Protecting Federalism and the Electoral College
is the result of a group of people who care about the United States and are
dedicated to preserving federalism because it helps to protect our freedom.

Why now?

"Federalism" our unique American system of states is under assault. The
National Popular Vote organization is pushing state legislation as a way to
sidestep the Electoral College.

While only eight states and the District of Columbia have enacted NPV
legislation, the effort plays on misunderstandings about the Electoral College
and reinforces misconceptions about federalism. If passed by states worth a
majority of electoral votes (270), NPV claims to create an interstate compact
that would manipulate the Electoral College system to create a direct national
election for President. This would eliminate the checks and balances created by
the Electoral College and further unravel our system of states.

Who's behind NPV?

"National Popular Vote" was thought up by Dr. John Koza, inventor of the
scratch-off lottery ticket. In fact, Koza's first venture into politics was lobbyoing
state legislatures to create lotteries using his patented ticket and paying him
royalties. Koza has reinvested some of that fortune in creating the NPV
organization and hiring expensive lobbyists to convince legislators to accept
this new gamble.

Who cares?

How we elect our president effects every other part of our American political
system.

The Electoral College forces candidates to run national campaigns and build
broad, diverse coalitions. The NPV/Koza scheme would give more power to
fringe candidates, regional political movements, and corrupt big city political
machines.

The authors of the United States Constitution understood that the structure of
government is more important to human liberty than even a bill of rights.
Indeed, while our Bill of Rights was added later, the systems of checks and
balances and federalism were built into the original Constitution. One of these
structures is the Electoral College, the process by which we elect the President
of the United States.

The Electoral College forces candidates to build national coalitions. It prevents
candidates from winning based on intense support in just one region of our
large and diverse nation. The Electoral College is just a system, but the
incentives it creates have moderating, unifying, and stabilizing effects that help
the United States to remain a free and prosperous nation.

Save Our States is now a project of the Freedom Foundation.

[Swift Silver]

National Popular Vote Scheme: Does it Violate Founder's Plans?

New National Popular Vote Scheme: Does it Violate Founder's Plans?

[cortés]

National Popular Vote Scheme: Does it Violate Founder's Plans?

New National Popular Vote Scheme: Does it Violate Founder's Plans?

Excellent article

But for decades progressives and other groups have sought a way to
circumvent or eliminate the Electoral College and this National Popular Vote
scheme is only the newest attempt to do so.

This is the stealth method in which the people [and states] are robbed of
their power & liberty...it all began during this time period...with Woodrow
Wilson [who dismissed the Constitution as outdated & irrelevant].

The American Spectator : Is Any Part of the Constitution Unconstitutional?

The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which provides for the direct
popular election of senators, was enacted in 1913, at the height of the
Progressive Era. Originally, the Constitution had provided for state
legislatures to appoint U.S. senators, a realistic reflection that the
Constitution was a compact of sovereign states. It meant that senators
would not be focused on public campaigning; they could do what they were
elected to do. They would represent the interests of the states that sent
them -- not the people in the states, but the states as sovereign entities.

The Founding Fathers' original intent in providing for indirect election of
senators was to place a strong check on the power of the federal
government. At the federal table, the people were to be represented by
the House of Representatives, the nation as a nation was to be
represented by the president, and the states as sovereign entities were to
be represented by the senators whom the states sent to Washington. The
beauty of this federal table concept was the veto the states had on the
encroachment of their sovereignty by the feds. The 17th Amendment killed
that veto, took away the states' place at the federal table, unleashed the
feds' appetite for power, and assaulted the delicate constitutional
framework the founders gave us.

Consider the ways the process of recalling a rogue senator differs between
then and now. Before 1913, if a senator were to assault state sovereignty,
the people of that state were able to exert influence on the state
legislature, which is held accountable every two years by a popular vote.
The state legislature would be able to recall a senator immediately, thus
sending a powerful message that those in the highest seats of federal
power could be instantly dethroned.

Without the 17th Amendment, ObamaCare would never have passed.

It Was No Accident...
That the first 3 words which launched this profound, historic, radical
document were written in such enormous letters...that they were
impossible to overlook or ignore. It wasnt a mistake or a quill malfunction.
It was done purposely and intentionally.

[cortés]

Parents: Rules Half-Baked - BostonHerald.com
State’s junk food ban could take bite out of school fundraisers

Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on,
will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards,
forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.

State Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln), chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, said the
problem of overweight children has reached “crisis” proportions.

“If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,” Fargo said.

“But,” she added, “this is a major public health problem and these kids deserve a chance at a good,
long healthy life.”

NEWSFLASH: Sen Fargo...thats not your job.

This Is How It Starts...The Pleasure Police
America's self-anointed "Pleasure Police" is a play on George Orwell's "Thought Police" themes from
the novel 1984, where governments and corporations combine mass surveillance assets to oversee
all aspects of an individual's professional and personal life.

"Pleasure Police" refers to politicians and other public figures who strive to set [and strictly enforce]
laws that would outlaw personal pursuit of otherwise legal pleasures—such as smoking cigars, pipes,
and other tobacco products, and imbibing "adult beverages" such as beers, wines, spirits, and even
coffee, in public.