Bill Text: NH HJR1 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Affirming the natural right of persons and affirming that the state and federal government are established for the purpose of upholding, protecting, and securing these rights.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-23 - To Be Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs House Journal 2 [HJR1 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HJR1-Introduced.html
HJR 1 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0056
02/05
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 1
SPONSORS: Rep. Belcher, Carr. 4; Rep. Terry, Belk. 7; Rep. Sirois, Hills. 32
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This house joint resolution affirms the natural right of persons and that the state and federal government are established for the purpose of upholding, protecting, and securing these rights.
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25-0056
02/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
Whereas, the nature of the rights of persons is inherent, existing before and after the state, not furnished or legitimized by the state, but to be affirmed and upheld by the state, and binding on the state and magistrates in the exercise of their just authority; and
Whereas, the source of the just authorities of government are transcendent and legitimized by a constant observance of these principles, and by the consent of the governed which may be withdrawn owing to a failure of such constant observance; and
Whereas, the source of the rights of mankind is likewise transcendent, endowed and justified by our creator, and enumerated in part in the New Hampshire constitution and federal Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights, which holds the freedom from the official establishment of a state church or coercion toward particular spiritual dogma, the freedom of speech and right to disseminate information in good faith that shall not be infringed directly, by proxy, nor subject to prosecution under "hate crime" statutes in the absence of a crime against persons or property, the right to assemble and to receive reasonable protection from authorities against lawlessness and criminality in such assembly, the right to bear arms and to self-militia in defense of oneself, family, private property, community, state, nation, and liberties, that no soldier nor any person whatsoever shall be forcible or coercively quartered in any house or home, the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure by all government entities, by proxy of government, or by any entity furnishing such knowledge to government, in their persons, houses, papers, effects, and data, and the right that all persons subject to loss of a liberty-interest except property under a certain value shall have the right to a trial by jury; and
Whereas, the government of this state and the federalization of the several states is established for the purpose of upholding, protecting, and securing these rights to the citizenry of their respective jurisdictions for the entirety of their living presence therein; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That it is affirmed and directed to the other branches, political subdivisions, and all magistrates of government that this is the intent and belief of the legislature regarding the understanding, interpretation, and proper exercise of government authority in the state of New Hampshire in our delegated constitutional capacity to establish such policy as contained herein; and
That the house clerk and senate clerk each transmit a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States Senate, United States Senate Majority Leader, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the governor of New Hampshire, the attorney general of New Hampshire and the members of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.
