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rivergator · 01-29-2013, 04:38 PM

Is this what Mississippi tried back in the '60s?

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A bill sponsored by two Columbus lawmakers would allow the state to defy federal laws through a joint-legislative committee.

The committee, composed of 14 state elected officials, would determine what is and isn't within the federal government's power when dealing with the state's constitutional rights. House Bill 490, known as the "Mississippi Balance of Powers Act," was sponsored by Rep. Gary Chism, R-Columbus, and Rep. Jeff Smith, R-Columbus. The bill, which is listed with the state as an "active bill" and will be taken up by the Constitution Committee, provides measures to "prohibit the infringement of the Constitutionally protected rights of the State of Mississippi, or its people, by means of federal statute, mandate, executive order, judicial decision or other action deemed by the State to be unconstitutional."

"This was a bill that was requested for me to bring up," Chism said. "It's to solidify the 10th Amendment to the Constitution."

Chism said the bill was drafted in response to 23 executive orders issued by President Barack Obama on gun control and weeks before the state is scheduled to begin implementing a national health system commonly known as "Obamacare."

"Obamacare is one of the reasons we started talking about this bill," Chism said. "Then the new gun controls laws brought it back up. The federal government shouldn't be allowed to tell us we can't have guns. The Tea Party people are adamant about protecting their Second Amendment rights."

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