Bill Text: TX HCR26 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Concurrent Resolution 26 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Left pending in committee [HCR26 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HCR26-Introduced.html

	85R2290 KSM-F

	By: Keough	H.C.R. No. 26



	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
	United States of America reads as follows: "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 Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of
	federal power as being that specifically granted by the
	Constitution of the United States of America and no more; and
	WHEREAS, The scope of power as defined by the Tenth Amendment
	means that the federal government was created by the states
	specifically to be an agent of the states; and
	WHEREAS, Today, in 2017, the states are conversely treated as
	agents of the federal government, and many federal laws are
	directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of
	the United States of America; and
	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of
	the United States of America, and each sovereign state in the Union
	of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal
	government may not usurp; and
	WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the United States
	Constitution says, in part, "The United States shall guarantee to
	every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," and the
	Ninth Amendment states, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of
	certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
	retained by the people"; and
	WHEREAS, Actions taken by previous presidents and by Congress
	may further violate the Constitution of the United States of
	America; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
	hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
	Constitution of the United States of America over all powers not
	otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the
	Constitution of the United States of America; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That this 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 these
	constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation or
	executive action that directs states to comply under threat of
	civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to
	pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed;
	and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
	copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
	the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
	Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
	of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
	resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
	memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.