No offense, Lincoln-worshipping Jaffa-ite “libertarians.”

Update: I received this email from someone:

The Oklahoma Legislature adjourned on May 25th and that bill failed to pass.

This is what Senator Corn’s assistant sent to me yesterday: “The House passed the measure and sent it to the Senate. The Senate assigned it to the Rules Committee – which means it will just die for lack of a hearing. That committee rarely meets and when a bill is sent there, it is pretty safe to assume it will die. Leadership makes the decisions on what bills are assigned to which committee and heard, so I wouldn’t know why they didn’t like or feel that was a viable piece of legislation.

“Susan Cochran, Assistant to Senator Corn”

Here is a link to the rules committee and a link to the leadership that is responsible for the bill being sent to rules committee to die–these are the senators that need to be exposed as opposed to liberty and the constitution. The unfunded mandates of the U.S government are draining the states dry. This bill HR 1089 would have stopped the ability of the FEDS to send such unfunded mandates to the state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma declares sovereignty
Posted on June 15, 2008 by Lance

I commend the state of Oklahoma for having the guts to stand up for the rights of the sovereign states. I am sure the Federal government is contemplating striking back.

STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 51st Legislature (2008)
HOUSE JOINT
RESOLUTION 1089 By: Key
AS INTRODUCED
A Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States over certain powers; serving notice to the
federal government to cease and desist certain
mandates; and directing distribution.

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States 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 and no more; and
WHEREAS, the scope of power 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 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as
agents of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of the
Tenth Amendment 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, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AND THE SENATE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE 51ST OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE:
THAT the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the
Tenth Amendment 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.
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.
THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to the President
of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker

of the House and the President of the Senate of each state’s
legislature of the United States of America, and each member of the
Oklahoma Congressional Delegation.

http://www.okhouse.gov/51LEG/Leg_Votesxx.aspx?include=okh01983.txt

http://www.ok-safe.com/files/documents/1/HJR1089_int.pdf

(Thanks to Gil Guillory)