Posted on 03/08/2009 6:57:37 AM PDT by Idabilly
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO Sixtieth Legislature First Regular Session 2009 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 4 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 1 A JOINT MEMORIAL 2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE3 SENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND THE 4 CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE 5 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 6 We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Idaho 7 assembled in the First Regular Session of the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully 8 represent that: 9 WHEREAS, Section 2, Article I, of the Constitution of the State of Idaho, sets forth the 10 Declaration of Rights and reads as follows: "All political power is inherent in the people. 11 Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit, and they have the right to alter, 12 reform or abolish the same whenever they may deem it necessary; and no special privileges or 13 immunities shall ever be granted that may not be altered, revoked, or repealed by the legisla14 ture."; and 15 WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as fol16 lows: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it 17 to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”; and 18 WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that 19 specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and 20 WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal 21 government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and 22 WHEREAS, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal 23 government; and 24 WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to 25 the Constitution of the United States; and 26 WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 27 505 U.S. 144 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory 28 processes of the states; and 29 WHEREAS, Congress has inappropriately delegated its monetary authority to the private 30 federal reserve bank, thus failing to protect and provide a sound monetary system as defined 31 and mandated by the Constitution of the United States, forcing an unstable currency on us 32 resulting in the past, and the current, economic perils; and 33 WHEREAS, a number of proposals from past and present Administrations and Congress 34 may violate the Constitution of the United States. 35 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of 36 the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein, 37 that the state of Idaho hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitu38 tion of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal 39 government by the Constitution of the United States. 2 1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this serves as notice and demand to the federal gov2 ernment, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the 3 scope of these constitutionally delegated powers. 4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all compulsory federal legislation that directs states 5 to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions, or requires states to pass 6 legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited. 7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives be, 8 and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the President 9 of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Represen10 tatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the 11 Congress of the United States.
Now that is good.....
“How many state (and which ones) have sign these resolutions into law? They need to “JUST DO IT”.”
In my understanding the issue is {money} We’ve allowed this Federal Government to grow unto a whole new beast. I truly feel like a tax slave for the sick,lame & lazy! Tax slaves we are to the mighty Federal Plantation
This is starting to get really exciting!!!!
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