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 Msg  : #6416 [220]                                                             
 From : Ben Delisle                         1:2613/335      Sat 07 May 94 07:49 
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 Subj : 10th Amendment Resolution Reiteration. A Bill in WA State.              
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From: delisle@eskimo.com (Ben Delisle)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever

  This bill will be proposed in the Washington State Senate
at the beginning of the next session. A similar bill will go in to the
State House. I received this copy of this bill from State Senator
Linda Smith of the 18th Legislative District. This is an Important
bill, consider something similar in your State, If all the States
passed this bill it would send a message to the federal government.
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This measure would declare the state's sovereignty under the 10th
Amendment to the United States Constitution and demand that the
federal government cease and desist mandates that are beyond the
scope of constitutionally delegated powers.

  WHEREAS, The 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States reads as follow:
  "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 10th Amendment defines the total scope of federal
power as being that specifically granted by the Unites States
Constitution and no more; and

  WHEREAS, The scope and power defined by the 10th Amendment
means that the federal government was created by the States
specifically to be an agent of the States; and

  WHEREAS, Today, in 1994, the States are demonstrably treated
as agents of the federal government; and

  WHEREAS, Numerous resolutions have been forwarded to the federal
federal government by the Washington Legislature without any
response or result from Congress or the federal government; and

  WHEREAS, Many federal mandates are directly in violation of
the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and

   WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York
vs. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not
simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory process of the
States; and

  WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations
and some now pending from the present administration and from
Congress may further violate the United States Constitution; now,
therefore, be it

  ____Resolved_by_the_Senate_and_House_of_Representatives_of_
Washington,_jointly,___ that the State of Washington hereby claims
sovereignty under that 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted
to the federal government by the United States Constitution and
that this measure shall 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  its
constitutionally delegated powers; and be it further

  ___Resolved,___ That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies
of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President
pro Tempore of the  United  States  Senate, each  Senator and
Representative from Washington in the Congress of the Unites States
and to the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate of each
legislature in the United States of America.

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delisle@eskimo.com


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