Numerous States Introduce Legislation Affirming The Constitution
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The legislatures of
The legislatures of New Hampshire and Washington have just introduced bills declaring
that they will not submit to the Unites States Government if the federal
government acts unconstitutionally.
For example, the
Establishing
martial law or a state of emergency within one of the States comprising the
The
Regardless of what state you live
in, please take action to urge your state legislators to move forward on
passing this form of legislation.
If you live in
Please go to
http://www.leg.wa.gov/House and find these cosponsors by name, then call
or email them that you support this measure 100%
Representatives Shea, Klippert, Condotta, Kretz, Anderson, McCune,
and Kristiansen
If your state reps are not among
these cosponsors, call or email your state reps and ask them to support this
bill.
Then go to
http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Senators locate your senator,
and ask them to support a companion bill.
H-1028.1
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HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4009
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State of
By Representatives Shea, Klippert, Condotta, Kretz, Anderson,
McCune,
and Kristiansen
Read first time 01/30/09.
Referred to Committee on State Government &
Tribal Affairs.
1 TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
3 REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
5 SENATE AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH STATE'S
6 LEGISLATURE OF THE
7 We, your Memorialists,
the Senate and House of Representatives of
8 the State of
9 represent and petition as
follows:
10 WHEREAS, The
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
11 States specifically provides
that, "The powers not delegated to the
12 United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
13 are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people."; and
14 WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment
defines the total scope of federal
15 power as being those powers
specifically granted to it by the
16 Constitution of the
17 WHEREAS, Federalism is the
constitutional division of powers
18 between the national and state
governments and is widely regarded as
19 one of
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1 WHEREAS, James Madison,
"the father of the Constitution," said,
2 "The powers delegated to
the federal government are few and defined.
3 Those which are to remain in
the state governments are numerous and
4 indefinite. The former will be exercised
principally on external
5 objects,
[such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The
6 powers reserved to the several
states will extend to all the objects
7 which, in the ordinary course
of affairs, concern the lives, liberties,
8 and properties of the people."; and
9 WHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson
emphasized that the states are not
10 "subordinate" to the
national government, but rather the two are
11 "coordinate departments
of one simple and integral whole. The one is
12 the domestic, the other the
foreign branch of the same government.";
13 and
14 WHEREAS, Alexander Hamilton
expressed his hope that "the people
15 will always take care to
preserve the constitutional equilibrium
16 between the
general and the state governments." He believed that "this
17 balance
between the national and state governments forms a double
18 security
to the people. If one [government] encroaches on their
19 rights, they will find a
powerful protection in the other. Indeed,
20 they will both be prevented
from overpassing their constitutional
21 limits by [the] certain rivalship which will ever subsist between
22 them.";
and
23 WHEREAS, The scope of power
defined by the Tenth Amendment means
24 that the federal government
was created by the states specifically to
25 be limited in its powers
relative to those of the various states; and
26 WHEREAS, Today, in 2009, the
states are demonstrably treated as
27 agents of the federal
government; and
28 WHEREAS, Many federal mandates
are directly in violation of the
29 Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the
30 WHEREAS, The
United States Supreme Court has ruled in
31 United States, 112
32 commandeer the legislative and
regulatory processes of the states; and
33 WHEREAS, A number of proposals
from previous administrations and
34 some now being considered by
the present administration and from
35 Congress may further violate
the Constitution of the
36 NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully resolve:
37 (1) That
the State of
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1 the Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the
2 powers not otherwise enumerated
and granted to the federal government
3 by the Constitution of the
4 (2) That
this serve as a Notice and Demand to the federal
5 government to maintain the
balance of powers where the Constitution of
6 the United States established
it and to cease and desist, effective
7 immediately, any and all
mandates that are beyond the scope of its
8 constitutionally delegated
powers.
9 BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately
10 transmitted to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the
United
11 States, the President of the
12 House of Representatives, the
President of the Senate and the Speaker
13 of the House of
Representatives of each state's legislature of the
14
15
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