State legislator wants to fight health care plan
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Detroit Free Press: Americans and Michiganders have exercised their First Amendment rights to the fullest in the ongoing debate over federal health care legislation. But state Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland, said he thinks citizens and individual states may need another weapon to deploy against encroachment by the national government: an assertion of rights under the 10th Amendment. Calley introduced a resolution last week to place before Michigan voters a state constitutional amendment to prohibit mandatory participation in a national health care plan. He said that right is guaranteed by the 10th Amendment limitation on federal power in the U.S. Constitution. Calley said health care insurance changes may or may not be in the interest of many Michiganders. But they should be able to decide that for themselves, he said, and not be forced to accept it by decree from Washington.
The Calley amendment, which needs approval from two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate to be placed on the 2010 ballot, is one of more than a dozen initiatives under way across the country. The measures are aimed at reviving what a national Tenth Amendment advocacy group calls widespread federal encroachment that has rendered the amendment, part of the original Bill of Rights, "almost a nullity." Getting the state amendment on the ballot will be an almost insurmountable challenge, Calley said. "We have a hard time getting two-thirds majorities to agree on anything," he said, "but it's important to make an effort."
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