Where Are We Today?

The elections are over and many people find themselves thinking, "Now what?"  Well, regardless of your political persuasion, the mission of the ALC has not changed.  We will continue to move forward to secure and defend the local control of land access, land use and land ownership, and help restore the sovereignty of our states.  

DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED!

The Supreme Court recent stated in the Affordable Care Act decision:

Federal Government … must show that a consti­tutional grant of power authorizes each of its actions. The same does not apply to the States, because the Con­stitution is not the source of their power. … The States thus can and do perform many of the vital functions of modern government—punishing street crime, running public schools, and zoning property for development, to name but a few—even though the Constitution’s text does not authorize any government to do so. Our cases refer to this general power of govern­ing, possessed by the States but not by the Federal Gov­ernment, as the “police power. … Because the police power is controlled by 50 different States instead of one national sovereign, the facets of governing that touch on citizens’ daily lives are normally administered by smaller governments closer to the governed. The Framers thus ensured that powers which “in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people” were held by gov­ernments more local and more accountable than a distant federal bureaucracy. The independent power of the States also serves as a check on the power of the Federal Government: ‘By denying any one government complete jurisdiction over all the concerns of public life, federalism protects the liberty of the individual from arbitrary power.’ … In the typical case we look to the States to defend their prerogatives by adopting ‘the simple expedi­ent of not yielding’ to federal blandishments when they do not want to embrace the federal policies as their own. The States [by and through their political subdivisions] are separate and independent sovereigns. Some­times they have to act like it.”  

And THAT is exactly what we intend to do.