My name is Leonard Foster.  I believe that one of the main problems with our state government is that your elected officials do not honor their oath of office.

The promise in the oath of office is pretty simple: to protect and defend you from laws that infringe on your liberty. 

It is about state’s rights. The job of the state legislature is to preserve the rights promised to you by our state’s constitution. This means protecting you from an over-reaching federal government.

So every time the state legislature passes some smoking ban on private businesses, or tries to make not weraring a seat belt a primary offense, they are breaking a solemn oath to defend your personal liberty.

You have my solemn oath, that I will protect the sovereignty of the American people against unconstitutional actions. 

The oath taken by state elected officials:
I, ................, do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend the constitution and government of the United States, and the constitution and government of the State of Nevada, against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, allegiance and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution or law of any state notwithstanding, and that I will well and faithfully perform all the duties of the office of ................, on which I am about to enter; so help me God; under the pains and penalties of perjury. 
(Nevada Constitutional Debates and Proceedings, pp. 104-107, 609, 610, 662, 744, 809, 847.) [Amended in 1914: proposed and passed by the 1911 Legislature, agreed to and passed by the 1913 Legislature, and approved and ratified by the people at the 1914 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 458; Journal of the Assembly, 26th Session, p.20 and Journal of the Senate, 26th Session, p.37.]

 “State legislatures will always be, not only the vigilant, but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens against encroachments from the federal government.” 
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers 26