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Texas Sovereignty Concurrent Resolution Filed
Texas State Legislature ^ | 2/18/09 | Rep. Creighton

Posted on 02/17/2009 12:52:47 PM PST by erkyl

Joining with the other sovereign state legislation, Texas Rep. Creighton files concurrent resolution which states: WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and...{snip}
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{snip}

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or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislationor lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed;


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; cwii; federalism; sovereignty; states; statesrights; texas
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To: BGHater

I have “websense” here as well -

“block - lifestyles and activism” or some such is usually what I get.

That’s OK... I can send a direct link to your post.


41 posted on 02/17/2009 1:23:56 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: AuntB
There’s a list somewhere on FR that I saw this morning. 22 states, IIRC, moving in that direction.

I have always thought that Texas entered the Union with a stipulation that it could divide itself into five states. I really don't know if that is true, but that could change the power structure in the Senate in one swoop.

42 posted on 02/17/2009 1:25:40 PM PST by itsahoot (We will have world government. Whether by conquest or consent. Looks like that question is answered)
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To: Frantzie

We WERE a Republic until annexation and statehood in 1845.

Yes, Frantzie, there were two provisions included in the annexation agreement of 1845: that Texas kept its public lands and that Texas reserved the right to break into five separate states.

Many scholars argue that secession during the Civil War and readmission nullified the first annexation agreement. I, personally, don’t know.

I do recall that during the Arab oil embargo and gas rationing in 1973, there was talk of separate states to increase our voice in Congress.

Wouldn’t that be interesting — 10 Senators from Texas?


43 posted on 02/17/2009 1:27:15 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: MeanWestTexan
Wow. Let’s leave.

We could only pray to God for this to happen. I'd put up wire and make sure that nobody from Cali, New York or any other liberal sh#t hole moves here for 20 years.

44 posted on 02/17/2009 1:27:38 PM PST by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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To: erkyl

Does this have a chance at passing?


45 posted on 02/17/2009 1:28:22 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: itsahoot

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/texan03.asp

Ordinance of the Convention of Texas, July 4, 1845


46 posted on 02/17/2009 1:29:17 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: Frantzie
Is their produce type farming?
You bet! We've got lots of stuff here!
Texas Department of Agriculture
The fact that Texas, the country's second-largest farm state...
Snip...TDA certifies a host of Texas grown crops including grains (wheat, corn, and rice); beans (soybeans, mungbeans, pintos, and many other peas and beans); sesame; fruits (blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, citrus, peaches, plums, apples, melons); nuts (pecans, peanuts); vegetables; herbs; aloe vera; mushrooms, sprouts, and wildflower and grass seeds.
In 2003, TDA implemented certification for production and processing of livestock including beef, pork, poultry and dairy. Livestock standards can also be applied to exotic game and aquaculture.

Texas Fruit Growers Association
lists almost 30 grown in the State.

47 posted on 02/17/2009 1:29:40 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: erman

Test ‘em at the border,
don’t let any libs in.


48 posted on 02/17/2009 1:30:17 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Sister_T

Come to Oklahoma, it’s just like Texas but without MOST of the Texans. We do have more than our share of Texans here. Half kidding, they’re better than Californicators any day.


49 posted on 02/17/2009 1:31:38 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: erkyl
"Thank you God, that I live in Texas!"

Secession?

50 posted on 02/17/2009 1:33:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: erkyl
"Thank you God, that I live in Texas!"

Secession?

Obama thinks he's Lincolin....

51 posted on 02/17/2009 1:34:22 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Redbob

SC filed a bill last week.


52 posted on 02/17/2009 1:34:24 PM PST by tunedin
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To: buffyt
Actually, at one time CA was quite conservative. When I was a boy and young man, CA was a great state to live in, open carry, easy to get a CCW in just about every county, taxes were not onerous and businesses were encouraged. That gradually changed until one day, bang, we were screwed.

Conservatives always make the mistake of thinking everyone is happy being free and that no one will try to change a good thing. They always forget the power mongers and control freaks that long to lord it over everyone. We always sit on out hands until it is too late for anything but violence.

53 posted on 02/17/2009 1:34:54 PM PST by calex59
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To: erkyl

I live in NW Oklahoma. One fall we drove between Tulsa and Stillwater every weekend and never saw less than 20 crossing the highway. The were all headed south. Must have been going to Texas.


54 posted on 02/17/2009 1:36:31 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Billg64

you all are about to be invaded from the south

Ain’t no hill for a stepper! Heck we whooped em once, no big deal again.


55 posted on 02/17/2009 1:36:31 PM PST by dusttoyou (HNIC)
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To: MrB
Test ‘em at the border, don’t let any libs in.

Would bringing in a sh** load of firearms pass the test?

56 posted on 02/17/2009 1:36:33 PM PST by calex59
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To: Jedidah; itsahoot

“We WERE a Republic until annexation and statehood in 1845.

Yes, Frantzie, there were two provisions included in the annexation agreement of 1845: that Texas kept its public lands and that Texas reserved the right to break into five separate states.

Many scholars argue that secession during the Civil War and readmission nullified the first annexation agreement. I, personally, don’t know.”

___________

Thanks for your explanation, I didn’t know the answer. Many prior ‘contracts’ were nullified by the Union concerning those who joined the South after the CW.

When Texas joined the union, Sam Houston demanded 3 counties in Texas be retained by the Cherokees who had settled them before white settlers. During the Texas war with Mexico, these Cherokees guarded Houston’s backside from marauding Mexicans.

But the US government broke that promise to the Republic of Texas after they joined, killed many of the Cherokees removing them and ran the rest to Mexico.


57 posted on 02/17/2009 1:40:39 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: calex59

Probably... especially if they were “ugly”.

Seriously, though, it’s pretty easy to quickly assess the worldview of a person, if you know what to look for.

Remember how we’re always saying that libs are more worried about outcomes than rules? You can devise a test that will expose that worldview. It is this dichotomy of assumptions on which all other positions on issues are based.

Sowell’s Conflict of Visions lays it out.


58 posted on 02/17/2009 1:41:23 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: erkyl
Can anybody recommend a good real estate broker down there in Texas for me?
59 posted on 02/17/2009 1:42:17 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: erman

“I’d put up wire and make sure that nobody from Cali, New York or any other liberal sh#t hole moves here for 20 years. “

What about a far right Christian from NJ that has been ostracized by the state of NJ for getting a homosexual video removed from schools. Also, I am a gun owner and HATE LIBERALS!


60 posted on 02/17/2009 1:43:07 PM PST by mikelets456
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