By Craddick                                           H.C.R. No. 40
       74R655 CCK-D
                                 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
    1-1        WHEREAS, United States policy on military intervention in
    1-2  international affairs has shown a disturbing trend toward an
    1-3  increased subordination to the control of the United Nations; and
    1-4        WHEREAS, The constitutional role of the United States
    1-5  military is to protect the life, liberty, and property of United
    1-6  States citizens and to defend our nation against insurrection or
    1-7  foreign invasion; and
    1-8        WHEREAS, The United States is an independent and sovereign
    1-9  nation, not a subsidiary of the United Nations, and Americans show
   1-10  no popular support for the establishment of a "new world order" or
   1-11  world sovereignty of any kind, either under the United Nations or
   1-12  under any world body in any form of global government; and
   1-13        WHEREAS, Global government would mean the destruction of our
   1-14  constitution and corruption of the spirit of the Declaration of
   1-15  Independence, our freedom, and our way of life; now, therefore, be
   1-16  it
   1-17        RESOLVED, That the 74th Legislature of the State of Texas
   1-18  hereby request the Congress of the United States to cease the
   1-19  appropriation of United States funds for any military activity not
   1-20  authorized by the congress; to cease engagement in any military
   1-21  activity under the authority of the United Nations or any world
   1-22  body; to cease the rendering of aid to any such activity or
   1-23  engagement under the jurisdiction of the United Nations or any
   1-24  world body; and to cease any support for the establishment of a
    2-1  "new world order" or of any form of global government; and, be it
    2-2  further
    2-3        RESOLVED, That the 74th Legislature memorialize the congress
    2-4  to refrain from taking any further steps toward the economic or
    2-5  political merger of the United States into a world body or any form
    2-6  of world government; and, be it further
    2-7        RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
    2-8  copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
    2-9  the speaker of the house of representatives and president of the
   2-10  senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the
   2-11  Texas delegation to the congress with the request that it be
   2-12  officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the
   2-13  Congress of the United States of America.