85R2290 KSM-F
 
  By: Keough H.C.R. No. 26
 
 
 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
         WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
  United States of America reads as follows: "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, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of
  federal power as being that specifically granted by the
  Constitution of the United States of America and no more; and
         WHEREAS, The scope of power as defined by the Tenth Amendment
  means that the federal government was created by the states
  specifically to be an agent of the states; and
         WHEREAS, Today, in 2017, the states are conversely treated as
  agents of the federal government, and many federal laws are
  directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of
  the United States of America; and
         WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of
  the United States of America, and each sovereign state in the Union
  of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal
  government may not usurp; and
         WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the United States
  Constitution says, in part, "The United States shall guarantee to
  every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," and the
  Ninth Amendment states, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of
  certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
  retained by the people"; and
         WHEREAS, Actions taken by previous presidents and by Congress
  may further violate the Constitution of the United States of
  America; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
  hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
  Constitution of the United States of America over all powers not
  otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the
  Constitution of the United States of America; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand to the federal
  government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective
  immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these
  constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation or
  executive action that directs states to comply under threat of
  civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to
  pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed;
  and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
  copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
  the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
  Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
  of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
  resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
  memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.