By: Creighton H.C.R. No. 50

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States reads as follows: “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”;
and

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of
federal power as being that specifically granted by the
Constitution of the United States and no more; and

WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment
means that the federal government was created by the states
specifically to be an agent of the states; and

WHEREAS, Today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated
as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of
the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union
of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal
government may not usurp; and

WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution says,
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government,” and the Ninth Amendment states that
“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”;
and

WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New
York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that congress may not
simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the
states; and

WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations
and some now pending from the present administration and from
congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States;
now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise
enumerated and granted to the federal government by the
Constitution of the United States; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand to the federal
government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective
immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these
constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that
directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal
penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation
or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and, be it
further

RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the
senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the
Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.

Ted Nugent weighs in on 10th Amendment. More “ammunition” for the States to assert their Constitutional rights.

Bill Status
Roll Call
SOUTH DAKOTA BILL TEXT

South Carolina’s Sovereignty bill goes to the Senate Subcommittee March 5, 2009

OKLAHOMA: “10th Amendment” Sovereignty Bill *PASSED* THE SENATE March 04, 2009

State Senator Randy Brogdon’s SRJ 10 passed today. This is a very good thing. It is the “twin” of Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key’s HJR 1003 More information here
http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/action-alert-today-sjr-10-sjr-11/

KENTUCKY: The bill for the Kentucky Legislature is located here. If you click on HRC 168 you can download the bill as a Word.doc. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/09RS/HC168.htm

WEST VIRGINIA: Here you can find West Virginia’s Information http://www.wvsovereignty.info/

TENNESSEE: This is Representative Susan Lynn’s bill in Tennessee http://susan-lynn.blogspot.com/

INDIANA: This Libertarian site gives a little history on the bill in Indiana as well as the bill’s text. http://www.lpin.org/node/621

Arkansas votes down their bill. http://arkansasnews.com/2009/03/04/house-panel-rejects-state-sovereignty-resolution/ A lot of people are going to be voted out on this issue.

      In a 216 to 150 vote, the bill was defeated. Now the will of the people must prevail by voting out the scoundrels that don’t seem to understand the issue.
      It is an absolute that the Federal Government IS limited by the Constitution. They have time and time again usurped their authority, and are about to tax us into slavery and indentured servitude for the rest of our lifetime and our children, and their children and so on.
      The Bill of Rights is now looked upon as some foreign concept only radicals could embrace. Almost all of them have been undermined except Freedom of the Liberal Press… wait, oh yes that’s right that one bit the dust too.
      Rush Limbaugh should be taken off the air out of “fairness”? If he were a left wing commie like the rest of the media they would be squealing “censorship”. Yet, they constantly want to and do censor us. Anyone who disagrees with them is demonized to a point where it is a miracle to see them out in public.
      There are 40 states with RTC (right to carry) laws on the books with respect to the second Amendment. That means these states are respecting the citizens right to carry a fire arm. How radical. According to the NRA the violent crime rate is down quite a bit since all these people, otherwise known as honest citizens, are running around with their guns. Funny how the lamestream media (term borrowed from Page9) doesn’t inform us of anything positive that’s ever happened because of the second Amendment being unhindered.
      ”Violent crimes are down” are just words unless you have ever been a victim. I was robbed at gunpoint once as a teenager. Calling the police after the crime is not the same as having the wherewithal to protect yourself. I could have wound up dead, but hey, at least I wasn’t carrying a gun. That’s the important thing. Absurd. It is a God given right to be able to protect yourself, and these scoundrels and thieves are constantly trying to rob us of that right.
      The time for talking about all this is over. Now we must get involved and get these scoundrel types out of office. They are for taking our rights away as they walk around with their armed security forces.
      We the people ARE the government. We are not the serfs of government or the property of the government. We will never get our dignity back or the respect for our rights until we fight like soldiers and demand them. Are you tired of your children being stolen by the government? Brainwashed by the media and turned against you by the school system? Are you sick of being treated like a deranged criminal because you believe in the right to carry? It is not the Federal Government’s job to assign to us our ideas; to tell us how and what to think. Being free means you think for yourself.
      The only way Obama could feel confident to commit us to pay for the Trillions of dollars (just one Trillion could give every family in the United States about Ten thousand dollars each) in taxes he has proposed is he believes we are fools and rubes, serfs of the STATE. We must demand our rights at the local level now, or we will be forfeiting the only opportunity we may have to remedy this tyrannical situation. Funny how Obama campaigned against the rich, then in a Robin Hood in reverse scheme, he is robbing from the poor and giving to the rich bankers who couldn’t run their businesses in the first place. Bailout… it is not a bailout, it is a stick up!