Oklahoma to feds: Don't tread on me

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 16, 2008

[Man50D]

Steamed over a perceived increase in federal usurping of states' rights, Oklahoma's House of Representatives told Washington, D.C., to back off.

Joint House Resolution 1089, passed by an overwhelming 92-3 margin, reasserts Oklahoma's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and, according to the resolution's own language, is "serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates."

The Tenth Amendment states, "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."

Traditionally, this language has meant that the federal government is limited in its scope and cannot usurp the sovereign powers of states. In recent decades, however, as the size and reach of the federal government has expanded, many have come to question whether Washington has stepped on states' rights and gotten too big for its breeches.

Charles Key, the Republican state representative who authored the resolution, told WND that he introduced it because he believes the federal government's overstepping of its bounds has put our constitutional form of government in danger.

"The more we stand by and watch the federal government get involved in areas where it has no legal authority, we kill the Constitution a little at a time," he said. "The last few decades, the Constitution has been hanging by a thread."

Specifically, Resolution 1089 says the following:

"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."

[Neidermeyer]

Needless to say this is way past overdue...

[1Peter2:16]

Oklahoma, OK - L A H O M A, OKLAHOOOOOOOOOMA!!!!!
How I wish the other 49 states would do the same!

[gogogodzilla]

I hope this becomes a trend throughout all 50 states...

[kindred]

The U.S. Supreme Court in the last week has decided to allow illegals to stay in America and obtain left wing lawyers to defend them and has also allowed the Muslim terrorists to go free while making left wing lawyers rich in defending them, both at taxpayers expense.
In effect, the Supreme Court has effectively taken power from both the US legislature by making law through misinterpretation and has ruled the Constitution unconstitutional.
As usual, with conservatives, it is to little too late.
Most conservatives are just big talkers as I have found.

[1Peter2:16]

Oklahoma, OK - L A H O M A, OKLAHOOOOOOOOOMA!!!!!
How I wish the other 49 states would do the same!

[underground]

This is probably the third or fourth state legislature to recently re-affirm their rights and the limits of the federal government in regard to the constitution. I should probably keep a running tab on my site because it does look like an accelerating trend...

[txzman]

Great to do, but it has little real effect. The Feds, as with the Dept of Education, merely use Federal Tax Dollars as bribes (or withholding money) to get around the Constitution.

[stockpirate]

Now let’s see if OK does anything to push the issue.

[barb-tex]

I hope this is more than just symbolism. If the NEW PRESIDENT is like that other Senator from IL, he will step all over OK.
barbra ann

[arderkrag]

Same here.

[Dick Vomer]

How I wish the other 49 states would do the same!

I want all he other 56 states to do the same.... which 7 are you going to leave out?

[Hebrewbrother]

"Oklahoma's House of Representatives told Washington, D.C., to back off."

We'll know their serious when they decide to enforce this.

"No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken." United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 9

[bobjam]

The 10th Amendment died at Appomatox.

[mark3681]

“How I wish the other 49 states would do the same!”

Don’t you mean the other 56 states?

Obama told us there were 57. Or, maybe he was thinking about varieties of pickles.

[mark3681]

“This is probably the third or fourth state legislature to recently re-affirm their rights and the limits of the federal government in regard to the constitution. I should probably keep a running tab on my site because it does look like an accelerating trend...”

If you are going to do this, please put me on your list. I would like to keep up on this too.
BTW, what is your site?

[iopscusa]

Most conservatives are just big talkers as I have found...
This statement just begs a question, besides talking, what have you done?

[mark3681]

“Great to do, but it has little real effect. The Feds, as with the Dept of Education, merely use Federal Tax Dollars as bribes (or withholding money) to get around the Constitution.”

How much oil is in OK? They can supplement their income with it. And, sell some of it back to Amerika for a small phenomenal fee.

[L,TOWM]

Apparrently the thought that this country will crash to the ground w/o cheap labor, did not.

[Wallace T.]

During the desegregation crisis of the 1950s and 1960s, the states blinked when Federal power was used to override state school segregation law. Governors Orval Faubus in Arkansas, Ross Barnett in Mississippi, and George Wallace in Alabama all talked loudly about states’ rights, but when the Feds sent regulars or Federalized the National Guard, they backed down without a fight. The fact is that the states lack military power; the National Guard units can be taken away from the governors by Presidential authority. In the end, this state sovereignty measure is nothing but a conservative equivalent of liberal-type feel good legislation.