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Oklahoma House Affirms Sovereignty Over State Powers
The New American ^ | July 21, 2008

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 year’s legislative session ended.

The rest of the nation took little notice of the Oklahoma House’s 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 Oklahoma’s, 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.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: johnbirchsociety; statesrights; tenthamendment
The 10th Amendment is one of the most overlooked an ignored of the bunch.
1 posted on 07/28/2008 4:26:22 PM PDT by djsherin
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To: djsherin

Bump for further study!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 07/28/2008 4:33:07 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Obama the Messiai----uh, er, um, uh, uh.)
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To: djsherin

X bump


3 posted on 07/28/2008 4:40:49 PM PDT by kewlhandluke2
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To: djsherin

If all the states did it and really meant it, we would actually be “free and independent states” once again.


4 posted on 07/28/2008 4:45:42 PM PDT by rightwinghour (http://rightwinghour.podbean.com/)
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To: djsherin

BTTT

Now days it should include exclusion from Federal threats like highway funds.


5 posted on 07/28/2008 4:51:20 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: wolfcreek

The denying of highway funds.


6 posted on 07/28/2008 4:52:22 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: djsherin

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.


7 posted on 07/28/2008 4:52:57 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( VOTE FOR McCAIN 2008! Support Florida's Gus Bilirakus, FL-9; McCainNow.com; LetsGetThisRight.com)
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I don't know what Constitution you are using but rumor has it that the Tenth Amendment was repealed in 1861, it was definitely gone after 1937.
8 posted on 07/28/2008 5:20:30 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: djsherin

bttt


9 posted on 07/28/2008 8:28:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: All

bttt


10 posted on 07/28/2008 9:31:26 PM PDT by buschbaby
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To: PhiKapMom
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.

From the article...

Opponents of the measure in the Senate managed to keep it from being debated and voted on before this year’s legislative session ended.

No offense, but your state's Senate is pretty pathetic. Why they possibly not advance this is beyond me.

11 posted on 07/29/2008 7:13:54 AM PDT by jmc813 (Scattered, smothered, covered, diced, chunked)
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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.


12 posted on 07/29/2008 9:00:57 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( VOTE FOR McCAIN 2008! Pawlenty for VP; McCainNow.com; LetsGetThisRight.com)
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Because it was not legal as the House found out after they passed it.

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.

13 posted on 07/29/2008 9:44:08 AM PDT by jmc813 (Scattered, smothered, covered, diced, chunked)
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