New York State Sovereignty is a grass roots organization that believes in State Sovereignty under the 10th Amendment.

THE 10TH AMENDMENT
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

However you want to rephrase it, the US federal government is authorized to exercise only those powers which are specifically given to it in the Constitution. Nothing more, and nothing less.

How much clearer can this be? Our goal it to get New York State to reassert it's right to existence by passing a "10th amendment resolution" as is being done in 38 states in our Union today. These resolutions though non binding at this point are a strong warning shot over the bow, "cease and desist" to the Federal government, demanding that they keep their laws off of our land and it's citizens.

"New York is either a colony of Washington D.C. or it justly deserves it's own star on our Union Flag."
– Jacques Ditte.

Furthermore, this group's philosophy is grounded in Constitutional Conservatism.
"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." –Thomas Jefferson.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."- Declaration of Independence.

Further we understand that the Constitution was written and preserved thanks to the blood of hundreds thousands of Patriots who fought enemies both foreign and domestic.

Thomas Paine understood this fact all too well:
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

Thomas Jefferson said our liberty would be forever under attack: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

Even at our Founding there were the pacifists who threatened our future: "If ye love the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." –Samuel Adams, 1776

Therefore if you wish to belong to this group you fundamentally understand that our Liberty stems from a higher power, not from a government: "A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." –Thomas Jefferson

This past year has made it perfectly clear, that the very existence our Union as originally constituted is at a crossroads. "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation" –James Madison, 1788

Yet if we act with resolve, there is a path to put our nation back on track: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man... Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force –Thomas Jefferson.

Fortunately our Constitution tells us that we can exercise our right to vote in Congressional elections, a mere 300 days away :)

"Excessive taxation will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election."
–Thomas Jefferson, 1798

"To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition. Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."–Thomas Jefferson–1791

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of the government."
–Thomas Jefferson-1787

If you driven by these Founding principles, I hope you will join me in a peaceful and legal, yet unrelenting opposition to the forces of Statism and Tyranny.

America was neither founded, nor freed by the well behaved.

Jacques Ditte
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom, in the minds of men." — Samuel Adams