HM 1429

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25to be repealed," and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


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