Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HR 8 - State powers; claim sovereignty under U. S. Constitution

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1. Joyce  1st             2. Lakly  105th            3. Woods  32nd
4. Smith  19th            5. Johnson  97th


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HR 8                                               LC 9 7927






                             A RESOLUTION

  1- 1  Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
  1- 2  Constitution of the United States over all powers not
  1- 3  otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government
  1- 4  by the United States Constitution; and for other purposes.

  1- 5  WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
  1- 6  United States reads as follows:

  1- 7    "The powers not delegated to the United States by the
  1- 8    Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
  1- 9    reserved to the States respectively, or to the people";
  1-10    and

  1-11  WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of
  1-12  federal power as being that specifically granted by the
  1-13  United States Constitution and no more; and

  1-14  WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment
  1-15  means that the federal government was created by the states
  1-16  specifically to be an agent of the states; and

  1-17  WHEREAS, today, in 1995, the states are demonstrably treated
  1-18  as agents of the federal government; and

  1-19  WHEREAS, numerous resolutions have been forwarded to the
  1-20  federal government by the General Assembly of Georgia
  1-21  without any response or result from Congress or the federal
  1-22  government; and

  1-23  WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of
  1-24  the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
  1-25  States; and

  1-26  WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New
  1-27  York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress
  1-28  may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory
  1-29  processes of the states; and

  1-30  WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations
  1-31  and some now pending from the present administration and
  1-32  from Congress may further violate the United States
  1-33  Constitution.




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                                                   LC 9 7927

  2- 1  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
  2- 2  REPRESENTATIVES that the State of Georgia hereby claims
  2- 3  sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of
  2- 4  the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated
  2- 5  and granted to the federal government by the United States
  2- 6  Constitution and that this measure shall serve as notice and
  2- 7  demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and
  2- 8  desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the
  2- 9  scope of its constitutionally delegated powers.

  2-10  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of
  2-11  Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit
  2-12  copies of this resolution to the President of the United
  2-13  States, the Speaker of the United States House of
  2-14  Representatives, the President of the United States Senate,
  2-15  each member of Georgia's congressional delegation, and the
  2-16  Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate of each
  2-17  state legislature in the United States of America.































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