HM 1429

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to submit the repeal amendment to the United
4	States Constitution to the states for ratification.
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6	WHEREAS, the United States Constitution provides for a
7	government with enumerated powers, and
8	WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the United States
9	Constitution provides that "[t]he powers not delegated to the
10	United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
11	States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
12	people," and
13	WHEREAS, the balance of power in the federal system has
14	shifted decidedly in favor of the powers of the Federal
15	Government over the last century as a result of constitutional
16	amendments and changes in judicial interpretation of
17	constitutional limitations on the powers of the Federal
18	Government, and
19	WHEREAS, the proposed repeal amendment would provide "[a]ny
20	provision of law or regulation of the United States may be
21	repealed by the several states, and such repeal shall be
22	effective when the legislatures of two-thirds of the several
23	states approve resolutions for this purpose that particularly
24	describe the same provision or provisions of law or regulation
25	to be repealed," and
26	WHEREAS, adoption of this amendment to the United States
27	Constitution would restore the original balance in our federal
28	system and allow a check on the Federal Government by the
29	democratically elected members of the legislatures of the
30	several states, NOW, THEREFORE,
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32	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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34	That the Congress of the United States is requested to
35	submit the repeal amendment to the United States Constitution to
36	the states for ratification.
37	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
38	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
39	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
40	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
41	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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