{"id":17357,"date":"2013-03-05T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17357"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:43:44","slug":"grassroots-using-model-legislation-to-reduce-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17357\/grassroots-using-model-legislation-to-reduce-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Using Model Legislation to Reduce Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The libertarian-leaning <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Tenth Amendment Center<\/a> is doing a double service for people interested in how to fight federal government overreach at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Before explaining further, I want to say that I do not endorse all of the views at TAC. The point here is to highlight how one group within the larger conservative movement is finding a way to work within the system to enact constructive alternatives.)<\/p>\n<p>The first service is providing an <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">easy-to-access list<\/a> of model legislation to use at the state level.\u00a0 Any limited government activist with an internet connection and a printer can get readymade bill language that a sitting state representative or senator can introduce.\u00a0 The topics range from <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2ndamendment\/ \" target=\"_blank\">preserving Second Amendment gun rights<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/obamacare\/ \" target=\"_blank\">refusing to cooperate with ObamaCare<\/a>, with issues like the <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/constitutionaltender\/\" target=\"_blank\">Constitutional Tender Act<\/a> in between.<\/p>\n<p>After a piece of model legislation is introduced, TAC then delivers its second service: Tracking the progress of its bills across the fifty states.\u00a0 For example, since January 2013, nine states have introduced at least one element of TAC\u2019s ObamaCare refusal law.\u00a0 So far, twenty-three states have introduced TAC bills protecting gun rights, and another three have passed the measure out of at least one legislative chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the model legislation comes from experts in the field like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alec.org\/initiatives\/health-care-freedom-initiative\/ \" target=\"_blank\">American Legislative Exchange Council <\/a>(ALEC), while others look to be homegrown with TAC.\u00a0 Whatever their provenance, limited government conservatives should get energized by the fact that concerned citizens are finding ways to stem the tide of federal overreach \u2013 even if you\u2019d never hear about it from the mainstream media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The libertarian-leaning Tenth Amendment Center is doing a double service for people interested in how to fight federal government overreach at the state level. (Note: Before explaining further, I want to say that I do not endorse all of the views at TAC. The point here is to highlight how one group within the larger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4062,3160,35,1001,220,839],"class_list":["post-17357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alec","tag-gun","tag-obamacare","tag-repeal","tag-second-amendment","tag-tenth-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17357"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17372,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions\/17372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}