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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION |
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| INTRODUCED BY HENNESSEY, BAKER, B. BOYLE, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, D. COSTA, CREIGHTON, DEASY, EVERETT, FARRY, GIBBONS, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHART, HARKINS, HESS, KAVULICH, KIRKLAND, KNOWLES, LONGIETTI, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MANN, McGEEHAN, MILNE, MULLERY, MURPHY, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, QUIGLEY, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SCHRODER, K. SMITH, SWANGER, TAYLOR AND WAGNER, MAY 24, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 24, 2011 |
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| A RESOLUTION |
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1 | Supporting the Unification of Ireland. |
2 | WHEREAS, Ireland and its people are an ancient and distinct |
3 | island nation and the people of Ireland have a right and |
4 | responsibility to govern themselves; and |
5 | WHEREAS, Human and civil rights derive "their just powers |
6 | from the consent of the governed" and are best guaranteed by |
7 | people freely elected by democratic means to an independent |
8 | government; and |
9 | WHEREAS, The logic of history, international law, human |
10 | rights and peace dictate the reunification of the island of |
11 | Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement, the devolved Assembly and |
12 | the development of the all-Ireland institutions of governance |
13 | attest to this momentum; and |
14 | WHEREAS, In the past the House of Representatives of the |
15 | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania adopted the MacBride Principles for |
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1 | Northern Ireland and strongly endorsed passage of the Good |
2 | Friday Agreement among the previously warring parties, in part |
3 | because of the dedication as well as bipartisan support of three |
4 | separate Presidents of the United States, in seeing the Good |
5 | Friday Agreement to fruition and formation of the Assembly; and |
6 | WHEREAS, The contributions of the Irish-born and of Irish |
7 | Americans to the United States of America and to the |
8 | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are legion; and |
9 | WHEREAS, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is home to a |
10 | significant percentage of Americans whose ancestors emigrated |
11 | from Ireland in times of famine and war to seek a better life, |
12 | but in whose hearts still remains a desire for peace and |
13 | unification in their ancestral home; therefore be it |
14 | RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the |
15 | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania strongly support the unification of |
16 | Ireland, by supporting all peaceful political actions that will |
17 | result in the final reunification of the island of Ireland |
18 | through all electoral and diplomatic means necessary; and be it |
19 | further |
20 | RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to all |
21 | members of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation, the |
22 | Governor of Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama, Vice President |
23 | Joseph Biden, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, |
24 | the United States Ambassador to Ireland, the Taoiseach and the |
25 | President of Ireland. |
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