subject: Less Individual Responsibility Means More Government [print this page] What is state sovereignty? State sovereignty within the United States means that Utah or any other state has the right to speak up and have a say in what the national government does with their Utah state land, etc. State sovereignty means that the state of Utah has economic liberty, fiscal responsibility, educational choice, and individual responsibility all within their Utah district or state area. As of 2012, according to Brian Greene Utah House District 57, Utah is not exercising its state sovereignty as it should. Brian Greene Utah House District 57 is an attorney who thinks that Utah should exercise MORE state sovereignty.
Utah has state sovereignty over what happens to the land in Utah, where citizens can build a house, where educational choice funds are used, and Utah has the state sovereignty and economic liberty to say no to the national government if Utah thinks that the national government is saying something should be done in Utah and Utah doesn't want that to be done. This is only speaking broadly about the state sovereignty issues that Brian Greene Utah House District 57 is saying. You can search more online for statements and thoughts by Brian Greene Utah House District 57 to search this attorney's perspective on how Utah state sovereignty should function.
State sovereignty is not something new to Utah, nor to the United States. State Sovereignty has been around since Socrates. Likewise, individual responsibility of a state like Utah such as Limited Government, Economic Liberty, Fiscal Responsibility, and Educational Choice have also all been around since Socrates. Ever since there have been human beings that work together and communicate and live together, there has been the ideas of state sovereignty, Educational Choice, fiscal responsibility, economic liberty, limited government, and individual responsibility.
Our forefathers came to America with the desire to exercise their individual responsibility in educational choice and economic liberty. They wanted state sovereignty which meant that there was a limited government and that the voice of the people would govern a nation, through state sovereignty as one medium of economic liberty. Our forefathers knew that part of enjoying economic liberty meant that people had to exercise state sovereignty (or those within the state government would exercise state sovereignty and create the limited government checks and balances). They understood that economic liberty required individual responsibility.
Today, 2012, in Utah and all over the United States there is a lack of individual responsibility. People seem to want to not have a limited government, but rather have the government take responsibility for fiscal responsibility that should be their own individual responsibility. When the voice of the people vote for more government control, or even just let the government take control as in issues with state sovereignty where Utah could be more assertive in exercising its state sovereignty, then there is a lack of checks and balances and a limited government gains more power and control and the people surrender their economic liberty along with their individual responsibility.
It's not only in state sovereignty where Utah and people are giving up their economic liberty by just not speaking up or being assertive, or by surrendering because they don't want to take individual responsibility for something. State sovereignty in Utah is just a reflection of what's happening all over the US where people don't want to make a fuss nor do they want to take individual responsibility and so our economic liberty is surrendered to the government. We should have a limited government and that comes partly with Utah and other states exercising their state sovereignty and for everyone to exercise their own individual responsibility to maintain a limited government by taking fiscal responsibility. Better state sovereignty starts with people taking individual responsibility.
