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GunnyFreedom
03-09-2009, 07:05 PM
HEREAS, the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits the federal government from abusing those rights of American people which have not been enumerated in the Constitution or Bill of Rights; and

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

WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states, and of the people respectively; and

WHEREAS, today, in 2009, the states and the people are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, many powers assumed by the federal government and federal mandates are directly in violation of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes 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 Constitution of the United States; now, therefore,

SO BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,

IN ACCORD, that we hereby affirm North Carolina and her citizen's sovereignty under the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. We also demand that the federal government halt and reverse its practice of assuming powers and of imposing mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States.

GunnyFreedom
03-09-2009, 08:14 PM
This resolution will also be voted on at district and state levels. Please feel free to use them at your own GOP conventions, modified, of course, for the group in your convention. Also, feel free to comment if you have anything to add, or any changes/amendments you'd like in them. :)

MozoVote
03-09-2009, 08:42 PM
This resolution was passed at Buncombe county. See for yourself on their GOP website:

http://www.buncombegop.org/files/2009/03/state_sovereignty_resolution.pdf

GunnyFreedom
03-10-2009, 08:12 AM
That is some beautiful stuff, MozoVote! While there are a few exceptions, I have been really proud of NC with regards to giving way for Ron Paul Rupublicans.

slacker921
03-10-2009, 08:31 AM
wow.. I'm stunned. That really gives me some incentive to go to the state convention.