The Texas Sovereignty Act and the Texas Republican Platform

The Texas Sovereignty Act 

and the 

Texas Republican Platform

 As you all know, I have written you about the need for Texas to pass a Texas Sovereignty Act to claim our Constitutional right for our state to determine for itself whether or not a Texas law is Constitutional, or whether or not a Federal law, policy, executive action or legal ruling is Constitutional.  If you have not read my blog How Texas Can Reclaim Our Sovereignty <click here> you should definitely read it.  

Now the time is coming for Precinct Conventions, and soon after that County Conventions etc.  If you want to help move this idea forward, I am asking you to cut and paste the following resolution into a document, print it out, and present it to your Precinct Convention Meeting to be voted on and (hopefully) sent uo the ladder to the resolutions committees.  

This is a real grass roots effort.  What is a Precinct Convention?  If is a meeting held at your polling place after the polls close on election day, chaired by your precinct chairman (or if there is not one present, anyone that shows up for the meeting).   Anyone who voted in the Republican Primary in the precinct can attend the meeting and participate.  This is where you can nominate persons (including yourself) to serve as delegates to the County conventions (some populous counties are broken down into Senatorial District Conventions instead).   Anyone attending the meeting can submit a resolution and in open discussion make an argument for or against such resolutions.  These resolutions ultimately form the party platform.  This is your chance to participate!

TEXAS SOVEREIGNTY ACT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral part, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

AND WHEREAS it is true as a general principle, and is also expressly declared by the Tenth amendment to the Constitution, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, are prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”.

AND WHEREAS the Constitution does not name the United States Supreme Court, or any other federal body as the exclusive or final interpreter of the United States Constitution. 

AND WHEREAS the late Justice Anton Scalia wrote in regards to recent US Supreme Court rulings: "I write separately to call attention to this Court's threat to American democracy... This practice of constitutional revision... robs the people of the most important liberty... the freedom to govern themselves..."

THEREFORE we strongly urge the Texas Legislature to pass binding legislation claiming and enacting the right of our state to judge for itself whether a state law is unconstitutional, or whether a federal law, policy, action or ruling is unauthorized or undelegated by the Constitution.  We urge the Texas Legislature to pass a Texas Sovereignty Act which will enact as a matter of enforceable and implemented Texas Law that the State of Texas, and not any branch of the federal government, shall be the exclusive and final judge for our state as to whether any Texas law (including the Texas Sovereignty Act itself) is Constitutional, or whether any federal law, policy, action or ruling is unauthorized or undelegated by the US Constitution.