[Lancey Howard]

God bless Oklahoma.

[brityank]

Great idea, but it's dormant in the Senate listings.

[Dead Corpse]

If you never try, you'll never know the things you could have done.

If this passes and they stick to it, I hope it spreads...

[stainlessbanner]

bttt

[VOA]

bump

From a Ponca City, OK resident of 1956-1974.

Had to head off to college sometime!

[Windcatcher]

The sad thing is that the states shouldn’t have to do this. The Tenth Amendment should be treated with the same strength and vigor today as when it was first penned. It just goes to show what Washington thinks of our great document. Nonetheless, God bless the folks in OK for standing up for their sovereign rights.

[John Leland 1789]

All 50 States should do the same thing. I can’t imagine states like California or New York, etc. doing it, but we should encourage Oklahoma, not disparage the state for this step.

[kindred]

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; and

WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth 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 previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States.

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.

Good for Oklahoma, now may they be the first state to leave the federal government power grab and dismiss all judges who do not hold to the original intent of the constitution.

[rfreedom4u]

I think more states need to start taking care of their own business instead of running to Uncle Sugar everytime they have a problem. The constitution specifically states that if it isn’t in the constitution then it is the state’s responsibility not the feds.

[antisocial]

Bump

[upcountryhorseman]

The State of Virginia had the right of succession, but
look how far that got them.

[LomanBill]

>>Oklahoma Declares Sovereignty

 

It's an interesting idea; but I don't think this is going anywhere anytime soon...

 

Standing, Still

[kalee]

interesting, wish NC would follow and do the same.