“For too long Utah and other states have not exercised their sovereign powers in the face of the federal government’s growing reach into new arenas, according to leading members of a new state commission assembled to study and push back against federal authority. ‘History has shown that if you concentrate power it was a fundamental threat to the rights of people and it was corrupting,’ Senate Majority Leader Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, told the inaugural meeting of the Commission on Federalism. ‘We have watched that happen for the last 50 years as the federal government has broadened its jurisdiction in a number of issues.'”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56543637-90/federal-commission-government-states.html.csp
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