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Legislative Watch
Federal:
(Research Legislation:
The Library of
Congress)
VERY IMPORTANT - EDUCATE
YOURSELF ON THE HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION!
State:
(Research Legislation:
South Carolina Current Legislation)
Sovereignty:
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Save South
Carolina
from further debt!
Support State
Sovereignty NOW!
We must stand
up for our
Constitutional Principles!
(This is NOT a bill to secede from the US)
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Read the SC Sovereignty
Resolution:
House Version (H3509)
Senate version (S0424) Why
Sovereignty? Find more information at the
Tenth
Amendment Center.
The purpose of
the Sovereignty Rally
was to demand passage of the Sovereignty Act, which reasserts
for South Carolina state sovereignty under the
Tenth Amendment of the
United States Constitution. The Tenth
Amendment provides that the powers not delegated to the United States by
the
Constitution
are reserved to the states or the people. It is
important to remind ourselves that it is the states that created the
federal government, not the other way around.
Progressively in the past century, and acutely so in the more recent
past, the proper constitutional balance of power between the states and
the federal government has been turned on its head!
The operative
language of the SC Sovereignty Act, Senate version (S 0424), states:
"The
General Assembly of the
State of South Carolina
claims for the
State of South Carolina
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
United States Constitutional
[and resolves] that all federal governmental agencies,
quasi-governmental agencies, and their agents and employees operating
within the State of South Carolina
shall operate within the
confines of the
original intent
of the Constitution of the United States and abide by the
provisions of the Constitution of
South Carolina, the
South Carolina statutes,
or the common law as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United
States. Further, this
resolution serves as notice and demand to the federal government, as
South Carolina's agent, to cease and desist immediately all mandates
that are beyond the scope of the federal government's constitutionally
delegated powers." (underlining added)
Sovereignty resolutions across the
US:
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives became the first
state legislative body this
year to pass a resolution affirming its "sovereignty under the Tenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States" |
North Dakota - Passed April 7,
2009
Idaho - Passed State House March 23 & State Senate
April 7, 2009
South Dakota - Passed St. House March 3 & St. Senate
March 5, 2009
Alaska - Passed April 6, 2009
Indiana - Passed April 9, 2009
Georgia - Passed April 1, 2009
Oklahoma - Passed March 4, 2009
The following States have introduced Resolutions:
Alabama, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Kentucky, Texas,
and Michigan
Arkansas FAILED to pass their resolution in their House of
Representatives 54-34
New Hampshire KILLED their resolution in their house 216-150
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