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ssf467
02-17-2009, 16:36
This make's Federal Mandates what they are Bullshit

STATE OF COLORADO
BY REPRESENTATIVES Duke, May, (et al.)
ALSO SENATORS Roberts, Ament, (et al.)

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 94-1035

WHEREAS, The 10th 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 10th Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the United States Constitution and no more; and

WHEREAS, The scope of powers defined by the 10th Amendment means that the federal government was created by the States specifically to be an agent of the States; and

WHEREAS, Today, in 1994, the States are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, Numerous resolutions have been forwarded to the federal government by the Colorado General Assembly without any response or result from Congress or the federal government; and

WHEREAS, Many federal mandates are directly in violation of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; 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 prior administrations and many now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the United States Constitution; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Colorado, a sovereign Republic, the Senate concurring herein:

1. That the State of Colorado hereby claims sovereignty, under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution.
2. That this Resolution shall serve as Notice and Demand that the federal government, as our agent, is hereby instructed, effective immediately, to cease and desist, any and all mandates that are beyond the scope of its Constitutionally authorized powers.

Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, and each legislative house of each State of the United States of America.

Irving
02-17-2009, 18:13
Colorado isn't the first. Other states have already tried this.

TFOGGER
02-17-2009, 18:15
Dated 1994....too bad we didn't secede then....

ssf467
02-17-2009, 18:54
Colorado isn't the first. Other states have already tried this.

Sir Colorado was the 1st to pass this type of legislation (Post Civil War). 1994 Google J.T. Coyote, he helped get it rolling.

86k10
02-17-2009, 19:53
Sir Colorado was the 1st to pass this type of legislation (Post Civil War). 1994 Google J.T. Coyote, he helped get it rolling.

you must listen to alex jones. i heard j.t. on there the other day. i have to ipod the show. there isn't no local affiliates that i know of.

Irving
02-18-2009, 12:11
I saw the 1994 date after I posted and wondered if that is what you meant by first. Nice to know. So does this bill run every year or what?

ssf467
02-18-2009, 15:26
Until they vote it down it stands, they still don't abide by it.

Irving
02-18-2009, 19:48
Wait, so this is an actual bill that has been PASSED and is current law?