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10th Amendment Sovereignty Movement – It’s NOT about S ecession!
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te.al.us/acas/ViewBillsStatusACASLogin.asp?BillNumber=http://alisondb.legislature.stahjr298http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/03/18/alabama-hjr298-and-the-principles-of-federalism/ http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/record/1995/1995_H06089.pdfhttp://www.gpo.gov/congress/house/house10cal/104con/102.pdf
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G SOVEREIGNTY UNDER THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO THERALHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads asHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as beingHEREAS, Federalism is the constitutional division of powers between the nationalHEREAS, James Madison, “the Father of the Constitution,” said, “The powersinctsof CLAIMINCONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OVER CERTAIN POWERS,SERVING NOTICE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CEASE ANDDESIST CERTAIN MANDATES, AND PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN FEDELEGISLATION BE PROHIBITED OR REPEALED.Wfollows: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, norprohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to thepeople”; andWthat specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; andWand state governments and is widely regarded as one of America’s most valuablecontributions to political science; andWdelegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercisedprincipally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreigncommerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objewhich, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and propertiesthe people.”; and
Wthe national government, but rather the two are “coordinate departments of onesimple and integral whole. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch othe same government.”; andWtake care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the stgovernments.” He believed that “this balance between the national and stategovernments forms a double security to the people. If one [government] encroon their rights, they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they willboth be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by [the] certainrivalship which will ever subsist between them.”; andWfederal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the stateandWfederal government; andWthe Constitution of the United States; andWof America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and havealways had, rights the federal government may not usurp; andWUnited States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”, and the Ninth Amendment states that “The enumeration in theConstitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage otheretained by the people”; andWStates, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer thelegislative and regulatory processes of the states; andWpending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate thConstitution of the United States; now therefore,BTHEREOF CONCURRING, That the State of Alabama hereby claims sovereigntyunder the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powerHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the states are not “subordinate” tof HEREAS, Alexander Hamilton expressed his hope that “the people will alwaysateachesHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that thes;HEREAS, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of theHEREAS, many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment toHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United StatesHEREAS, Article IV, Section 4, United States Constitution, says in part, “ThersHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. UnitedHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some noweE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSESs
not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitutionof the United States.Bthe federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately,mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.Bstates to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or requiresstates to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed.BPresident of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speakeof the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House and thePresident of the Senate of each state’s legislature, and the entire delegation of theAlabama members of the U.S. Congress.E IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this resolution serves as notice and demand toE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that directsE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to therQUOTE
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une 19, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE H6089EMORIALSf rule XXII,a memorialma;J MUnder clause 4 o115. The SPEAKER presentedof the House of Representatives of the Stateof Alabama, relative to reclaiming Statesovereignty under the 10th amendment tothe U.S. Constitution for the State of Alabato the Committee on the Judiciary.
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