Karen Bracken, "Our Constitution Limits Federal Authority To 18 Enumerated Powers?"

GrassRoots TruthCast with Gene Valentino

“The Federal Government is the problem, not the solution.” So said President Ronald Reagan. Karen Bracken is the Founder of Tennessee Citizens for State Sovereignty (TNCSS). (www.tncss.weebly.com) (www.tncss.substack.com) . TNCSS intends to be a ‘watchdog’ group at the state level in Tennessee, which then intends to expand state by state nationwide. TNCSS is supporting a ‘Nullification Bill’ now before Tennessee’s legislature. Karen reminds us that our Federal Government and the Supreme Court are not the final arbiters of the Constitution. The proposed nullification bill intends to manage the overreach of the federal government. She claims the Federal Government is “out of its lane” and has overreached into too many areas, that the Constitution does not authorize their oversight of. For example, the Department of Education is not mandated to exist under our Constitution. Karen directs us to Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S.Constitution. She points to the 18 enumerated powers of the federal government. “If it’s not listed there it falls to the state,” she says. SHE’S RIGHT! Before “Common Core”, before the Clinton Administration, education was a successful laboratory process, where states were not required to have common standards across the nation. “Federalizing education has proven to be a national disaster,” she says. The money coming in to colleges from the federal government, superseded the implementation of good education standards. Federal money distracted our politicians from good education system standards, she claims. Studies show a historic drop in national reading and math scores since the adoption of national Common Core curriculum standards. She now wants to invoke nullification when such federal actions are an ‘overreach’. Karen Bracken supports this notion of nullification to remove the State of Tennessee from federal oversight by the U.S. Department of Education. She claims the federal government has no Constitutional right or obligation to impose oversight in education. In this interview, education is just one focus. The concept of nullification was born from the notion that instead of taking up arms and fighting another ‘civil war’, we can fix federal government overreach at the state levels first. Reaching U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators and seeking their support for this HB 0726 is essential. If Tennessee gets behind Karen Bracken and TNCSS in 2024, look for this movement to spread nationwide.
Karen Bracken, “Our Constitution Limits Federal Authority To 18 Enumerated Powers?”

Originally Recorded on Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Season 2, Episode 230

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