Written
by Larry Greenley
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Wednesday, 04 March
2009 18:15
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Oklahoma
is still leading the rest of the states in affirming state sovereignty over
those powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution as
secured by the Tenth Amendment. On February 18 the
Oklahoma House passed HJR1003, a bill affirming Oklahoma's Tenth Amendment sovereignty
powers, by a vote of 83 to 13. Today the Oklahoma Senate passed its version of the bill,
SJR10, by a vote of 25 to 17.
At
least 15 other states have already introduced resolutions similar to Oklahoma's HJR1003 and SJR10 resolutions, including Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana,
Iowa, Kentucky,
Michigan, Minnesota,
Montana, New Hampshire,
South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia,
and Washington.
Pennsylvania
and several other states are also considering such resolutions.
Click here to conveniently email your state legislators in
support of Tenth Amendment resolutions similar to Oklahoma's. You'll be supplied with a blank
message to your state legislators. Just use the information and links in this
article to learn whether your state has already introduced a Tenth Amendment
resolution or whether you need to urge your state reps to go ahead and
introduce such a resolution. Armed with this knowledge, you can compose an
appropriate email to send.
In another piece of good news, the Oklahoma Senate also passed by a resounding vote of 45 to 0
a resolution (SJR11) to rescind all of its previous calls to Congress to
convene a constitutional convention (con-con). Click here to read a review of which states have also
rescinded their con-con calls over the past 10-20 years. The more states that
rescind their con-con calls the less chance that a
dangerous con-con will ever be called.