Posted on 03/05/2009 8:56:00 PM PST by JSDude1
Oklahoma is still leading the rest of the states in affirming state sovereignty over those powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution as secured by the Tenth Amendment. On February 18 the Oklahoma House passed HJR1003, a bill affirming Oklahoma's Tenth Amendment sovereignty powers, by a vote of 83 to 13. Today the Oklahoma Senate passed its version of the bill, SJR10, by a vote of 25 to 17.
At least 15 other states have already introduced resolutions similar to Oklahoma's
Go, Oklahoma!
The rest of the nation is watching you. Don’t let us down!
BUMP!
Here's the next step:
A Viable Plan by USAF Vet Dan
Nice article. I like his idea of what action to take.
Only thing I see is that a state that withholds funds had better activate their national guard to protect their state officials. The feds will swoop in FAST to charge them with sedition of worse.
Yep, the nat’l guard should be absolutely ready to repel the feds, and we should be ready to back them up.
I checked the legislature’s website for status information. It confirms what this article says about it passed the senate.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/WebBillStatus/main.html
I think the house and senate versions have to be reconciled. Thanks for posting this!
I also note that the senate information page calls this a constitutional amendment for OK. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
JBS bump!
That's House Joint Resolution, it's not a bill. It's only symbolic, good symbolism, but it has no effect.
See post #11.
A link in post #10 for MRStep.com lists 30 states. Some of them in prior years. They have updates that several states have lost the vote.
“See post #11.”
Respectfully, might want to check the whole thread.
I know that; if you follow the link..it’s not my headline.
I’m sorry the link I posted didn’t work for the right information. It came up on the search page. You can do that and search SJR 10 or this:
SJR10 Engrossed Introduced Senate committee report Floor Supporting Documents:
None.
Short Title:
Constitutional amendment; claiming sovereignty under Tenth Amendment over certain powers.
Primary Authors:
Key, Brogdon
CoAuthors:
Newberry
Subject(s):
General Legislation, Government
Citations:
Citation Type Comment Eff. Date
Bill History:
Date Flags Chamber H Page S Page Text
2/2/2009 @x S 338 First Reading
2/2/2009 @x S 338 Authored by Senator Brogdon
2/3/2009 @x S 364 Second Reading referred to Judiciary
2/17/2009 @x S Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; pending CR
2/19/2009 @x S Pending authorship Representative(s) Key
2/23/2009 @x S 507 Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed
2/23/2009 @x S 507 Title stricken
2/23/2009 @x S 507 coauthored by Key (principal House author)
3/4/2009 @x S 813 General Order, Considered
3/4/2009 @x S 813 coauthored by Newberry
3/4/2009 @x S 814 Measure passed: Ayes: 25 Nays: 17
3/4/2009 @x S 814 Referred for engrossment
3/5/2009 @x S 823 Engrossed to House
3/5/2009 @x H 813 First Reading
It passed 3/4/2009.
Just words, huh? ALL dustups start with an exchange of -- words. At least any I'm familiar with. Is there another place you'd rather start the process? Like in the middle somewhere???
On what grounds would the Liberal Messiah take away any federal funding from Oklahoma.
I can assure you, the feeling is mutual.
They might just instruct their citizens not to withhold federal tax dollars either. That might also be what it means.
BUMP!
Well, I suppose it puts the feds on notice of potential pushback if they go too far.
This is good but addresses only half (the easy half of the problem). None of the federal encroachments are theoretically mandatory. Don’t want highway funds? No problem, your DUI threshold can be 0.20% if you want. So the feds are taking money from the citizens of the states, then buying the citizens’ freedoms from the state legislatures with the people’s own money! So as the feds have designed the game, it’s “bend over for our unConstitutional power grabs or sit by and fund the less principled and more socialist states that will”. The rules of the game are fundamentally broken and have to be addressed at that level, and not just by declining the latest “dollars for liberty” scam.
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