84R3165 JGH-D
	By: Creighton	S.C.R. No. 1

	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, Each member of the legislature has sworn a solemn
	oath to defend our United States and Texas Constitutions and takes
	great pride in being a citizen of the United States of America,
	where citizens have the right to petition their government for
	redress of grievances; and
	WHEREAS, Section 1, Article I, Texas Constitution, states
	that "the perpetuity of the Union depend[s] upon the preservation
	of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the
	States"; Section 2, Article I, declares, "All political power is
	inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on
	their authority, and instituted for their benefit.  The faith of the
	people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican
	form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have
	at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their
	government in such manner as they may think expedient"; and
	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 to the Constitution of the
	United States of America 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 Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
	United States of America means that the federal government was
	created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states with
	powers both limited and enumerated; and
	WHEREAS, Today, in 2015, the states are demonstrably treated
	as agents of the federal government; and
	WHEREAS, Many powers assumed by the federal government as
	well as federal laws and mandates are in direct 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, have always had rights that the federal government may
	not usurp; and
	WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the constitution says,
	"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, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in
	New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (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 pending with the present administration, as well as from
	Congress, may further violate the Constitution of the United States
	of America; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the 84th 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 that the
	federal government, as our agent, halt and reverse, effective
	immediately, its practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates
	and laws upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the
	Constitution of the United States of America; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation not
	necessary to ensure rights guaranteed the people under the
	Constitution of the United States 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 and 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.