Texas Representatives Introduce Resolution Asserting Sovereignty Under Tenth Amendment

Infowars
Friday, Feb 20, 2009

Texas has joined the states’ right and Tenth Amendment movement by introducing House Concurrent Resolution No. 50, filed earlier this week by Republican state representatives Leo Berman, Brandon Creighton, and Bryan Hughes. H.C.R. 50 cites Section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution, the Tenth Amendment, and the Ninth Amendment.

“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,” the resolution declares, while “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.’”

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…

H.C.R. 50 serves “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 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or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed.”

Finally, the resolution directs the Texas secretary of state to forward official copies of the resolution to president Obama, Speaker of the House Pelosi, the president of the Senate, Joe Biden, and all members of the Texas delegation to the Congress. In addition, there is an official request that the resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a “memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.”

Texas joins Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, and Georgia, states that have all introduced bills and resolutions declaring sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Illinois are also considering such measures.

“While the ramifications of these resolutions are still uncertain, one thing is clear,” writes Barbara Minton. “People are sick and tired of the federal government’s usurpation of power not granted to it by the Constitution. They have had enough of fear based economic terrorism and underhanded promotion of policies and procedures that bypass public scrutiny and the will of the people.”

It should be noted that a resolution is a statement and not law and does not necessarily represent a consensus of a state legislature. “Still, the fact that two states, California and Georgia, have already passed their versions of state sovereignty may be setting the stage for secession down the road if the federal government continues to show its scorn for the Constitution. The Oklahoma resolution has already passed in the House and is awaiting vote in the state Senate to be codified,” writes Minton.

For more information on the Tenth Amendment and states’s right movement, see this Infowars resource page on the subject.

As should be expected, the corporate media has all but ignored H.C.R. 50, while Vince Leibowitz of Dallas-based Pegasus News calls the resolution “bizarre” and intimates that Berman, Creighton, and Hughes are insane. Leibowitz’s comments are a sad testament on how out of touch many Americans are when it comes to the Constitution and the increasing encroachments of the federal government.

On Friday, February 20, Rep. Leo Berman of District 6 will be on the Alex Jones Show to talk about the resolution and states’ rights.

Sounds like an idea.

god bless texas

Remember the Alamo

correct me if I'm wrong, but I have heard from many Texans that Texas is still a "republic"

that condition was made when Texas became a state

is that correct????

not really, and some people think Texas retains the right to secede which is not true either

BUT Texas does have the right, if the Legislature and the people vote, to split itself into five states.

That would give Texas 10 Senators and a zillion Representatives for a lot more power and influence in Congress

Texas is the home of GW Bush!

Nuff said,,,,,

Its also the home of Dwight D Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson and Walter Cronkite and Chester Nimitz

what does that have to do with anything?

besides Bush isnt a Texan. he is from Maine

gotcha...ty

I'll excuse Ike, the only one worth a nickle of the three.

He was born in Texas but his family moved when he was 2 to Kansas where he graduated HS in 1909!

Fanta....just because someone you don't like is from Texas...doesn't mean the state is bad

don't forget I am from Texas and you loves me

He was born in Conn.
Raised in Texas!

Lee Harvey Oswald was from Texas

and so was David Koresh

but then so was Howard Hughes and Janis Joplin


and everyone knows that Stevie Ray was the best thats ever been

still not a Texan

God Bless Texas

Charles Manson was born in OH....so???

still can't see a downside to what texas is doing...


Didn't know maine already did such things though. More reading more me....

That must be why Im pulling your pigtails....