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2012

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Continuing Education (CAPSTONE)

The Tea Party

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A Push For States Rights Laws To Create A New Articles Of Confederation System Of Government In America: Eliminating The Middle-Class By Enacting Right To Work Laws And Voter I.D. Laws, Scott H. Jenkins Apr 2012

A Push For States Rights Laws To Create A New Articles Of Confederation System Of Government In America: Eliminating The Middle-Class By Enacting Right To Work Laws And Voter I.D. Laws, Scott H. Jenkins

Continuing Education (CAPSTONE)

This case study seeks to discover if there is a relationship between underlying racism and a push for total governmental control by elected Tea Party officials and conservative Supreme Court Justices affecting the increase of sovereign states’ rights laws which are being manifested through right-to-work laws and voter identification laws. The question that will be asked is: whether resentful southern conservatives and Tea Party Republicans are “waging a war with the Federal Government”, unions and voters in an attempt to return the American Constitution to the Articles of Confederation by strengthening states’ rights laws while weakening federal powers (Pilkingtoni, 2010). …