Message sent to candidates for Governor of NC

Sir,

You may well recognize below the opening paragraph of Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolves. The fact that Jefferson had penned these resolves was kept well hidden until leaked much later by John Taylor of Caroline. My question to you sir is twofold and your answer will determine if you get my vote for Governor.

First do you believe as Jefferson did in limited government and the absolute sovereignty of each state and in particular to the sovereignty of the State of North Carolina and the right of its people to self determination without the interference of the General Government except within the strict confines allowed by the Constitution as written by the Founders?

Second are you willing as Governor of the State of North Carolina to uphold the Constitution and do everything within your powers as Governor of the Sovereign State of North Carolina to resist by any and all means necessary unconstitutional over reach of both the General government and the government of North Carolina?

Your answers would be greatly appreciated and is required if I am to vote for you this fall. I and the good people of North Carolina will hold you accountable to your answer both before and after the election if you should win.

"Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self Government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party: That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress."

http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/kyres/kyadopted.html

Michael L Downing