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We, the Republican Executive Committee of Alachua County, in the great Florida State, commend our fellow several States, who have introduced Resolutions based squarely upon the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, which are particular to the thoughts, words, and actions of our Founding Father’s Bill of Rights; left as Providence to their Posterity. Whether or not the States have directly claimed in Resolution or Action, their reserved Sovereign Rights, the matter remains that these unenumerated rights were not meant to deny, or disparage, those retained by the States respectively, or to the People. Discussion of the Tenth Amendment in regard to Sovereign Rights must be necessarily and properly introduced with what precedes it, in the form of the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution,
‘The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.’
Honored States such as Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington have introduced or passed Resolutions to assert their reserved respective rights guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights contained within the United States Constitution.
The United States of America was founded on the principle of sovereign people within sovereign states and a limited federal government. It is with a firm reliance upon these principles of ‘We, the People’, that this resolution is brought forth.
We, the People, are struck with the magnitude of this endeavor. The events of history, the news of the day, the extreme, grave, and serious nature of these times compel us to now demand, for our Posterities’ sake, a strong measure of action be taken to reaffirm the sovereignty of the state of Florida on behalf of all Floridians. These times require earnest, honorable, and valiant action on behalf of our Esteemed Legislature.
Using the resolution brought forth by the great State of Texas as a template from which to begin, the undersigned Republican Executive Committee of Alachua County, in the great Florida State, offer the following:
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment of 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 clarifies 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, A number of federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment of 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 rightfully 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 clarified as good law 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 within the present administration and Congress, may further violate the Constitution of the United States; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Legislature of the State of Florida hereby claim sovereignty, for the People and the great State of Florida, under the Ninth and Tenth Amendment of 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 vital nature of this matter compels the creation of a committee by the State of Florida and its Citizenry to review the historical nature of the existence of the several States and the federal government in regard to the Ninth and Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. All historical and future findings should be diligently documented and brought forth in the creation of a United States Constitutional White Paper to serve as a necessary and proper reference of empirical accuracy upon the subject; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Florida 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 Florida delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a testament to the Congress of the United States of America upon the Nature of proper Constitutional Action.
‘The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.’
Honored States such as Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington have introduced or passed Resolutions to assert their reserved respective rights guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights contained within the United States Constitution.
The United States of America was founded on the principle of sovereign people within sovereign states and a limited federal government. It is with a firm reliance upon these principles of ‘We, the People’, that this resolution is brought forth.
We, the People, are struck with the magnitude of this endeavor. The events of history, the news of the day, the extreme, grave, and serious nature of these times compel us to now demand, for our Posterities’ sake, a strong measure of action be taken to reaffirm the sovereignty of the state of Florida on behalf of all Floridians. These times require earnest, honorable, and valiant action on behalf of our Esteemed Legislature.
Using the resolution brought forth by the great State of Texas as a template from which to begin, the undersigned Republican Executive Committee of Alachua County, in the great Florida State, offer the following:
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment of 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 clarifies 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, A number of federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment of 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 rightfully 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 clarified as good law 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 within the present administration and Congress, may further violate the Constitution of the United States; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Legislature of the State of Florida hereby claim sovereignty, for the People and the great State of Florida, under the Ninth and Tenth Amendment of 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 vital nature of this matter compels the creation of a committee by the State of Florida and its Citizenry to review the historical nature of the existence of the several States and the federal government in regard to the Ninth and Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. All historical and future findings should be diligently documented and brought forth in the creation of a United States Constitutional White Paper to serve as a necessary and proper reference of empirical accuracy upon the subject; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Florida 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 Florida delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a testament to the Congress of the United States of America upon the Nature of proper Constitutional Action.
