Friday, July 18, 2008

Oklahoma?

I was reading my Deseret Morning news paper and came across article written by Walter Williams. He is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His headline is "Oklahomans' efforts to rein in feds offers glimmer of hope." I thought that sounds interesting so I read the piece I will site what it says. State Rep. Charles Key has introduced a Joint Resolution 1089. The resolution's language, in part, reads "Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads as follows: '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'; and whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of the federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and whereas , the scope of power defined by Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and Whereas, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government.... Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2nd session of the 51st Oklahoma Legislature: that the State of Oklahoma hereby clams sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all of the powers otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. 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." Key's resolution passed the House 92 to 3 vote but it reached a bottleneck in the Senate where it languished until adjournment. WOW that is good, I HOPE that Utah takes this and changes the word Oklahoma to Utah.

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