Now if the other 49 chime in...

...we might get somewhere putting Uncle Sam back in his box:

By an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 92-3, the Oklahoma House of Representatives recently passed a resolution that reaffirmed that state’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment. Specifically, the resolution tells the feds to “cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.” In other words, the Oklahoma House is telling the federal government to back off—and using America’s founding blueprint as its justification for doing so.

Not surprisingly, Washington D.C.’s officialdom remains utterly tone-deaf to this sorely-needed expression of state sovereignty. In fact, when asked to comment on the resolution last week, President Bush’s spokesman had never heard of it, and could only say “maybe, maybe I will” when asked whether he would look into the matter for the purpose of providing the administration’s official response.

By contrast, the resolution’s lead sponsor—State Rep. Charles Key—was nearly as unambiguous as the language of the Tenth Amendment in explaining his desire to protect America’s “forgotten” right. “The more we stand by and watch the federal government get involved in areas where it has no legal authority, we kill the Constitution a little at a time,” he said. “The last few decades, the Constitution has been hanging by a thread.”

It's about time the 50 sovereign States rediscovered the spirit of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves. The Federal Government is the agent of the States, NOT their master.