jody
jody's JournalPerhaps you need to read the Heller decision. I'm not impressed by your PhD.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/07-290P.ZORight To Work, poverty, and health
In responding to other OP about Right to Work I obtained data for poverty and health at the state level from two sources:
The Research SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE: 2011, Table 4
http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf
America's Health Ranking report
http://www.americashealthrankings.org/ALL/2012
I grouped the data into Non Right to Work states and Right to Work states and calculated the following:
POVERTY
15.78 per 1,000 poverty rate in states without a right-to-work law
15.80 per 1,000 poverty rate in states with a right-to-work law
and
58% of those in poverty live in states without a right-to-work law.
42% of those in poverty live in states with a right-to-work law.
HEALTH
0.30 value for non right to work states average
-0.23 value for right to work states average
Hope someone will check my numbers.
I understand. "The Research SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE: 2011"
Table 4. People in Poverty by State Using 3-Year Averages Over 20091, 20101, and 2011—Con reports 48,423 people below the poverty level. http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf
58% of those in poverty live in states without a right-to-work law.
42% of those in poverty live in states with a right-to-work law.
There are many things that could affect our economy. I'm not sure how much right to work laws contribute.
Very depressing for AL Latest figures show CA with 37+ million people has a 23.5% SPM 3-year average
page 12, table "People in Poverty by State Using 3-Year Averages Over 20091, 20101, and 2011" at http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf
Alabama, 5 million people, has a rate of 14.5% for the same period.
Excluding TX, the other 7 states have 32 million people.
Apparently few have read the Sedition Act so I post it below.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/5th_Congress/2nd_Session/Chapter_74Known as the "Sedition Act", this act is the last of the four that make up the Alien and Sedition Acts.
[Expired.]
Chap. LXXIV.—An Act in addition to the act, entitled "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States."
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Penalty on unlawful combinations to oppose the measures of government, &c.
Ante, p. 112.That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty; And with such intent counselling &c. insurrections, riots, &c.and if any person or persons, with intent as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof; shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years; and further, at the discretion of the court may be holden to find sureties for his good behaviour in such sum, and for such time, as the said court may direct.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Penalty on libelling the government That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted and declared, Truth of the matter may be given in evidence.
The jury shall determine the law and the fact, under the court's direction.
Limitation. That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided, that the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat a prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.
Approved, July 14, 1798.
"Entitlement" quid pro quo – from the state & to the state
I read all the threads for the past year with the word "entitlement" and they seemed to deal exclusively with “entitlements” to the individual from the state.
The issue is not one sided however and the state has certain "entitlements" from individuals who claim "entitlements" from the state, a what for what or Quid pro quo arrangement.
Please post your understanding of what the state is entitled to from the individual.
Wrong! RKBA is one of our unalienable/inalienable rights and as SCOTUS said
SCOTUS in D.C. v. HellerGovernment can infringe upon all unalienable/inalienable rights but never to the point of banning that right.
Jefferson & Madison’s 1798 efforts to nullify unconstitutional laws still alive!
Washington, Colorado Allow Recreational Use of Marijuana
http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Washington-Colorado-Allow-Recreational-Use-of-4015844.php
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Support for marijuana’s recreational use built on measures that allow it for medical purposes in one-third of U.S. states. Previous attempts to legalize pot through ballot measures failed in California, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado and Nevada since 1972, according to the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures.
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“Regardless of state laws to the contrary, there is no such thing as ‘medical’ marijuana under federal law,” according to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released a letter a month before California voters considered a ballot measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana in 2010, saying the Justice Department would “vigorously” enforce federal law. The initiative failed.
Additional background material at Wikipedia links:
Nullification (U.S. Constitution)
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
By law, legal militias include the organized and unorganized militias. Suggest you visit the links
below and learn more about your options.
State Guard Association of the United States (SGAUS) and State defense force
If you are between 17 and 45 and male, and not in an excepted position, you are already a member of the unorganized militia under federal law, 10 USC 311 - Militia: composition and classes
State laws are different and in one state, all people between 17 and 64 are part of the militia, see http://legis.la.gov/lss/lss.asp?doc=85523
Finally, congress has been derelict in performing its duties under our Article I of our Constitution, "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia."
That responsibility includes the unorganized militia that is unorganized, unarmed, and undisciplined.
The above laws apply equally to conservative, liberal, and all other political persuasions.
Has the Governor of New York activated the New York Guard and New York Naval Militia, under federal
law part of the unorganized militia, as well as New York's Army and Air National Guards?
If that is inadequate the Governor can activate any portion of the remaining New York unorganized militia
See http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/MIL/1/2
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