Texas Sovereignty Bill

Where will all these Sovereignty declarations lead to? Will the people actually have the stomach to stand up to the invasion of the Federal government into the Nation-state? Texas did not participate in the Civil War, they actually signed an agreement to stay neutral. They have the ability to leave the Union first? Will they lead the way?




On February 17th 2009 Representatives Brandon Creighton, Brian Hughes, and Leo Berman introduced HCR 50 into the 81st Legislature of the Texas Government.


Caption Text: Affirming that the State of Texas 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 U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.

Please take a moment to email the Representatives and thank them for introducing this bill.


Representative Brandon Creighton - http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/email.php?dist=16&rep=brandon.creighton

Representative Brian Hughes - http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/email.php?dist=5&rep=bryan.hughes

Representative Leo Berman - http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/email.php?dist=6&rep=leo.berman


Next, contact your Representative and tell them you support this as well. You can search for your Representative at this link by zip code - http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/zip.aspx

Most will have a email contact form for you to complete when you click on their name. Here is a template you can copy and paste into the Message Box if interested or you can write your own.


I support Texas reasserting it's rights under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. Please support HCR 50 introduced February 17, 2009 by Representatives Creighton, Hughes, and Berman. Many other states have introduced similar legislation including Oklahoma, Arizona, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Washington. Many of us believe that our gun rights are at stake, martial law is an eminent threat, and the Real ID is unconstitutional. Please support this bill and get it passed into the Texas Legislature.


The Text of HCR 50:



H.C.R. No. 50







CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to 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 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 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, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas hereby claim 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; 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 Texas 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 Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.