Someone needs to pour cold water over Charlie.
Posted on 07/16/2009 10:00:08 AM PDT by sovereignty2
State Senator Carey Baker (R-Eustis) has introduced a memorial in the Florida Senate reaffirming the principles of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The memorial, awaiting an official Senate number, urges “Congress to honor the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and United States Supreme Court case law which limit the scope and exercise of federal power.”
“Now more than ever, state governments must exercise their Constitutional right to say no to the expansion of the federal government’s reckless deficit spending and abuse of power,” Senator Baker said. “With this resolution, our Legislature can send a message to Washington that our state’s rights must be respected.”
Baker spoke at July 4th weekend Tea Parties in Gainesville and Orlando, where he announced his sponsorship of the resolution that affirms the 10th Amendment’s provision that rights not expressly given to the federal government in the Constitution are “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Similar state sovereignty resolutions have been introduced in thirty-six other state legislatures across America. So far, seven states have had both houses of their legislature approve a sovereignty resolution, while three states have rejected them. Two Governors, Palin of Alaska and Bredesen of Tennessee, have signed state sovereignty resolution.
(Excerpt) Read more at tenthamendmentcenter.com ...
California Charlie will pour cold water over this. He wouldn’t want to offend his buddy Obama and his pals in the media.
I called my senator in Tallahassee and got his aid to record my support for Victor Crist to support it.
Yawn, draft articles of secession, now that would get the Feds attention.
Someone needs to pour cold water over Charlie.
>>Yawn, draft articles of secession, now that would get the Feds attention.<<
It’s coming. Just wait a little bit. That’s my next project.
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Today, Florida State Represenatives Workman and Plakon, along with co-sponsors Dorworth, Eisnaugle, Kelly, Precourt, and Tobia introduced House Memorial 19 (HM19), which “Urges Congress to honor provisions of U. S. Constitution & U. S. Supreme Court case law which limit scope & exercise of federal power.” (h/t David Reid)The goal of the memorial is to serve “as a notice and a demand to the Federal Government…to cease and desist, effective immediately, from issuing mandates that are beyond the scope of [their] constitutionally delegated powers.”
Florida is now the 37th state where such a resolution has been introduced. So far, seven states have had both houses of their legislature approve a sovereignty resolution, while three states have rejected them.
Related: FR 2/24/2009 Petition for Florida Sovereignty -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193144/posts
Thanks for the ping! I am going to call my senator (Atwater) and urge him to support this.
Didn't Gov. Perry in Texas suggests that???
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