Posted on 07/28/2008 4:26:22 PM PDT by djsherin
On March 13 the Oklahoma House passed House Joint Resolution 1089, sponsored by Rep. Charles Key and Sen. Randy Brogdon, claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers, by an overwhelming vote of 92 to 3. Opponents of the measure in the Senate managed to keep it from being debated and voted on before this years legislative session ended.
The rest of the nation took little notice of the Oklahoma Houses affirmation of the Tenth Amendment at the time. However, suddenly in mid-June news of the vote on HJR1089 went viral. Google this topic and see how article after article and forum post after forum post copied and pasted the text of the bill without mentioning when the vote occurred. Nonetheless, it is clear that the widespread interest in the news about HJR1089 is based on a resurgence in interest in the Constitution in reaction to the widespread usurpation of state powers by the federal government.
It would be a major victory for our freedom if the other 49 states would pass resolutions like Oklahomas, in which it 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.
Bump for further study!!!!!!!!!!!
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If all the states did it and really meant it, we would actually be “free and independent states” once again.
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Now days it should include exclusion from Federal threats like highway funds.
The denying of highway funds.
For about the hundredth time this was not passed out of the OK Legislature! It has been all over the web that this did not pass and posted on here as well.
It was submitted by the Rep who was Ron Paul’s Rep in OK.
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From the article...
Opponents of the measure in the Senate managed to keep it from being debated and voted on before this years legislative session ended.
No offense, but your state's Senate is pretty pathetic. Why they possibly not advance this is beyond me.
Because it was not legal as the House found out after they passed it. Senate here in OK is one of the best State Senates anywhere because they actually care if something is legal before they pass the legislation.
Usually anything submitted by this Rep doesn’t pass the legal test. I was in a debate with him and several others earlier this year and the things that come out of his mouth make me shudder.
I must admit I'm kinda out-of-the-loop on the whole thing. What was illegal about it? From reading the summary, it looked pretty legit to me.
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