Oklahoma found their balls…
Posted by Duncan on 22nd July 2008
and it pains me as a Texan to say it…
The resolution’s language, in part, reads: “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 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government. … Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2nd session of the 51st Oklahoma Legislature: that the State of Oklahoma hereby claims 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. 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.”
HOLY COW! Finally, a state has the political will to come out and tell Washington, D.C., that federal does not mean NATIONAL, and that they’ve (the feds) have overstepped their jurisdiction under the Constitution. Ofcourse we learn that this bill has hit a bottle neck in the Oklahoma Senate, so it hasn’t passed out of the state congress to be signed by the governor. But wouldn’t it be nice if the rest of the states came out in a similar manner and took a stand FOR the Constitution?
And why hasn’t it passed in the Senate (which is split 24-24 Repubs/Dems), because the Dems have refused to even HEAR it and it was stuck in committee until they recessed. Standard Dems, don’t put it on the floor for a vote…
Here is a direct link to the bill.
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