/PRAvenueNW/ -- Feb 3, 2010 Written by: Roy Moore
I am certainly pleased that the Alabama Legislature has passed a resolution affirming the sovereignty of our state under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Alabama now joins many other states which have passed such resolutions as a principled response to unprecedented threats to our liberties by the bloated and ever-expanding federal government.
The principle of states rights known as “federalism,” and contained in the Tenth Amendment, grew from a healthy American fear of abuse of power, particularly power centralized in one person or political body. When the American Colonists became the United States and threw off the bonds of Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence, one of the grievances listed in the Declaration was that the King and Parliament were “declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.”
Alabama’s state motto is, “We Dare Defend Our Rights.” Because of repeated injuries and usurpation of our federal government in both Republican and Democrat administrations of recent years, it is altogether fit and proper that the states should take alarm and affirm the Tenth Amendment to voice their opposition to federal abuse of power.
Judge Roy Moore is the chairman of the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery, Ala. He is the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office in 2003 for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument he had placed in the Alabama Judicial Building. Judge Moore will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Tenth Amendment Summit in Atlanta - Feb 25-26, 2010.
JUDGE ROY MOORE, FORMER ALABAMA. SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE, PRESIDENT OF FOUNDATION FOR MORAL LAW: Resides in Gallant, Alabama, with his wife Kayla and their children. Judge Moore graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1969 and completed his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1977. Captain Moore served in the U.S. Army as a company commander with the Military Police Corp in Vietnam. He became the first full-time Deputy District Attorney in Etowah County and served in this position from 1977 until 1982. In 1984, Chief Justice Moore undertook private practice of law in Gadsden. He became a judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama in 1992, and served until his election as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000. In 2003, Chief Justice Moore was removed from his position for standing up for the inalienable right to acknowledge God. The former Chief Justice lectures throughout the United States, teaching about America’s history and our right to acknowledge God. He authors a bi-weekly column, Our Moral Foundation, at www.WorldNetDaily.com. Judge Moore has authored a book, So Help Me God (2005), as well as numerous publications, including “Religion in the Public Square,” Cumberland Law Review, Cumberland School of Law, Volume 29, No. 2, 1998-1999; “Putting God Back in the Public Square,” Imprimis, Hillsdale College, Vol. 28, No. 8, August, 1999; “Courts Out of Control: Understanding the Rule of Law in America,” Liberty Forum, Institute on the Constitution, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Spring 2006; Our Legal Heritage, Foundation for Moral Law; and a chapter in Judicial Tyranny: The New Kings of America (Mark Sutherland ed., The National Policy Center 2005). Contact: Contact: Suzelle Josey, 334 362-3994, Sjosey@moore2010.com John Wahl, Communications Director at 256-729-8867, jvh440@yahoo.com, or Campaign Manager COL(R) James Henderson at 256-337-0826.
