--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Charity Angel <darlingdavisfam...@gmail.com> wrote:
Missouri HCR 13 http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills091/billpdf/intro/HCR0013I.PDF This is the version of the Sovereignty Bill as sponsored by Jim Guest. This should have a much better chance of approval as it lacks all the abortion verbiage included in the Davis bill, which will be DOA in Democrat Governor Jay Nixon's office. One step at a time! FIRST REGULAR SESSION House Concurrent Resolution No. 13 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1070L.01I Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as 2 follows: 3 "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, 4 nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States 5 respectively, or to the people."; and 6 7 Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being 8 that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and 9 10 Whereas, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the 11 federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and 12 13 Whereas, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the 14 federal government; and 15 16 Whereas, many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to 17 the Constitution of the United States; and 18 19 Whereas, the Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States 20 of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, 21 rights the federal government may not usurp; and 22 23 Whereas, Article IV, Section 4 says, "The United States shall guarantee to every 24 State in the Union a Republican Form of Government", and the Ninth Amendment states that H.C.R. 13 2 25 "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or 26 disparage others retained by the people"; and 27 28 Whereas, the United States Supreme Court has rules in New York v. United States, 29 112 S.Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory 30 processes of the states; and 31 32 Whereas, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some now 33 pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution 34 of the United States: 35 36 Now, therefore, be it resolved that the members of the House of 37 Representatives of the Ninety-fifth General Assembly, First Regular Session, the Senate 38 concurring therein, hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution 39 of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal 40 government by the Constitution of the United States; and 41 42 Be it further resolved that this concurrent resolution serve as Notice and 43 Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, 44 mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers; and 45 46 Be it further resolved that all compulsory federal legislation which directs 47 states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or requires states to pass 48 legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and 49 50 Be it further resolved that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of 51 Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the 52 President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the 53 United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and 54 President of the Senate of each state's legislature, and each member of the Missouri 55 Congressional delegation. T -- My Blog http://www.angelauthor.blogspot.com "Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to refuse to compromise with expediency. You must maintain the courage to defy the consensus. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
