MONTANA ACTION NEEDED TODAY: STATES SOVEREIGNTY RESOLUTION HR 3
----- Original Message -----From: J.P. FarleySent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:36 PMSubject: FW: MONTANA ACTION NEEDED TODAY: States Sovereignty Resolution HR 3Howdy All,Our patriot friend, Dave Hart, sent the below alert letter to me this afternoon.
Hallejuah!!! Our state soverignty bill is alive and be a buffer against the US Congress anti gun bill, HR 45, even if the crooked govsters pass it at the federale level.
I'm sending this letter to friends even in other states. If you want to see legislative action like this in your state, please read the text of our Mt. HR 3 below. It is wonderful in protecting citizens rights in each state against any unconstitutional federale govt. action. We need to rally every Montana citizen possible to call in supporting HR 3. Probably no other bill in history has ever been as important to the freedom and future of every citizen.
Whatever state you are in, please feel free to call our Mt. Legislature switchboard number, 406-444-4800 to let the House Judiciary Committee know what state you are from and that people in your state are watching and supporting passage of HR 3 because it will set an example for your and all other states.
If each of you will forward this letter to your email lists, we could bombard the Mt. Legislature Switchboard with potentially over a quarter million phone calls from all over the USA in support of HR 3. One small phone call could result in a quantum leap giant step toward your very future life of liberty!
Fox News just announced the Dept. of Homeland Security issued a bulletin today called DHS Report on Right Wing Extremism, targeting right wing critics, yes, all of us gun rights, soverignty and sound money supporters as a threat to be silenced. Is this insane or what? Do you think it is time to get involved???
Happy Freedom Trails,
Jim
From: dave@bravehart.comSubject: MONTANA ACTION NEEDED TODAY: States Sovereignty Resolution HR 3
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:55:54 -0600
Greetings Folks,
HR 3, The State Sovereignty Resolution, will be heard this Wednesday, April 15, at 9 AM in the House Judiciary Committee.
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 3
INTRODUCED BY M. MORE
A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA ARTICULATING THE RIGHTS OF THE STATE OF MONTANA AND OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the State of Montana declares and secures that the people of this state have the sole and exclusive right to govern themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and
WHEREAS, that right may never be delegated to the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Montana Constitution documents that in 1889 the people of Montana agreed to form a free, sovereign, and independent body politic, or state, by the name of "The State of Montana"; and
WHEREAS, the people of the State of Montana agree that all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government in the United States Constitution must be reserved to and exercised by individual states; and
WHEREAS, when Montana entered into statehood in 1889, that entrance was accomplished by a contract between Montana and the several states, with Congress and the President concurring and acting as the agent for the several states. That contract is known as the "Compact with the United States", archived as Article I of the Montana Constitution; and
WHEREAS, the sovereignty of those individual tribal governments of American Indians currently existing within the State of Montana is likewise guaranteed by that same Compact with the United States; and
WHEREAS, a contract, compact, or treaty must be implemented consistent with the terms and understandings in place at the time it was entered into; and
WHEREAS, the protection of these states' rights is enumerated in amendments to the United States Constitution, which state that "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, this resolution follows and expands into principle the position Montana established in its 60th legislative session when it rejected the federally mandated "Real ID" as an unwarranted assumption of federal power and as an unacceptable incursion into the right to privacy that the people of Montana have reserved to themselves in the Montana Constitution.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
(1) That the several states of the United States are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to general government, but by ratifying the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights the several states constituted a general government for special purposes and delegated to that government certain definite powers, while reserving all other rights.
(2) That when the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts in excess of its authority are void and of no force.
(3) That the government created by the United States Constitution was not granted the authority to determine the extent of the powers delegated to itself because such a grant of authority would have made the discretion of Congress and not the United States Constitution, and the limitations contained in the Constitution, the measure of Congress's powers.
(4) That the several states delegated to Congress via the United States Constitution a power to punish treason, counterfeiting of the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, felonies committed on the high seas, offenses against the law of nations, slavery, and no other crimes.
(5) That all acts of Congress that assume to create, define, or punish crimes other than those enumerated in the United States Constitution are void and of no force.
(6) That the power to create, define, and punish other crimes is reserved to the states.
(7) That the power of the federal government over individual liberties is restricted and the power is reserved by the states to determine whether liberties may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom and how far those abuses that cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated, rather than allowing the use to be destroyed.
(8) That states retain the right of protecting all freedoms of individual persons from federal incursion.
(9) That any acts of Congress that abridge protected individual freedoms are not law and are void.
(10) That excessive exercise of those parts of the United States Constitution by the federal government that delegate to Congress a power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States" and "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper" to regulate "commerce among the states" or that declare federal laws to be ultimately supreme has served to destroy the limits of power imposed on Congress by its creators, the several states.
(11) That those powers given to Congress in the United States Constitution detailed above have been amended, modified, and limited by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
(12) That if Montana accepts these inappropriate applications of power and continues to allow Congress to exercise unbridled authority, it would be surrendering its own form of government, its sovereign power, and its responsibility to its citizens.
(13) That the people of this state will not accept undelegated and consequently unlimited powers assumed by the federal government.
(14) That every state has a right to ignore or reject all unwarranted assumptions of power by other entities within its boundaries and that without this right, states and sovereign tribes would become mere administrative subdivisions of their intended servant, the federal government that the states created.
(15) That this state calls on the other several states for an expression of their sentiments on acts of the federal government not authorized by the United States Constitution.
(16) That the rights and liberties of Montana, its tribal governments, and Montana citizens and of the other several states must be protected from any dangers by declaring that Congress is limited by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
(17) That any act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States, or Judicial Order of the United States that assumes a power not delegated by the United States Constitution and diminishes the liberty of this State or its citizens constitutes a breach of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights by the government of the United States, which would also breach Montana's "Compact With the United States". Acts that would cause such a breach include but are not limited to:
(a) establishing martial law or a state of emergency within a state without the consent of the legislature of that state;
(b) moving federal military personnel or units into a state without the consent of the legislature of that state or with the intent to enforce federal laws or to assert the supremacy of the federal government;
(c) requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service other than a draft during a declared war or pursuant to or as an alternative to incarceration after due process of law;
(d) requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of persons under the age of 18 years, other than pursuant to or as an alternative to incarceration after due process of law; or
(e) surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any corporation or foreign government.
(18) That if any act of Congress becomes law or if an Executive Order of the President of the United States or Judicial Order of the United States is put into force beyond the reservations expressed in this resolution, Montana's "Compact With the United States" may be considered breached and all powers previously delegated to the United States via the United States Constitution revert to the states individually.
(19) That any future federal government of the United States shall require ratification of three-fourths of the states seeking to form a federal government and shall not be binding upon any state not seeking to form or join a federal government.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of State send a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, to each member of the United States Congress, and to the Secretary of State of each of the other serval states and territories of the United States.
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If you are not able to testify in person in Helena, Please call the Legislative Switchboard # 406-444-4800, and leave a message with ALL members of the House Judiciary Committee to Vote YES on HR 3, The States Rights Resolution.
I understand that this resolution was reworded ( it was formerly HJ 26 ), to be more agreeable for the democrats. According to Gary Marbut of MMSA, HR 3 is the best antidote available for Montana to counter H.R. 45, The Blair Holt Licensing Act in Congress, a federal bill attempting to make it illegal to own a firearm unless it is registered and licensed, along with other onerous restrictions (read Gun Control).
Here is the text of HR 3: