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Wash. Claiming state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.

hypocritexposer

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http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?year=2009&bill=4009


1 TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
3 REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
5 SENATE AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH STATE'S
6 LEGISLATURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
7 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of
8 the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully
9 represent and petition as follows:
10 WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
11 States specifically provides that, "The powers not delegated to the
12 United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
13 are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."; and
14 WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal
15 power as being those powers specifically granted to it by the
16 Constitution of the United States and no more; and
17 WHEREAS, Federalism is the constitutional division of powers
18 between the national and state governments and is widely regarded as
19 one of America's most valuable contributions to political science; and

Read the whole thing http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?year=2009&bill=4009
 
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Anonymous

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Much of the push for this Memorandum comes from the Bush USDA's push to mandate the NAIS ID system...There has been talk about this on some of the anti-ID sites....
The other thing that had some upset was the Homeland Security mandate that everyone in the US, Canada, and Mexico had to go to an identical ID/Drivers License design/system....The last Montana legislature came out with a referendum opposing that...
 
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