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Oregon HJR 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (LCashwell@aol.com)
Wed Feb 15 01:14:20 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 01:12:08 -0500
From: LCashwell@aol.com
To: jeager@gemini.willamette.edu, libertarians@MIT.EDU
68th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--1995 Regular Session
House Joint Resolution 11
Sponsored by Representative REPINE (at the request of D.J. Stevens-Alen, PhD,
KCMSJ)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is
not a part ofthe body thereof subject to consideration by the Legislative Asse
mbly. It is an editor's brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.
Provides that Oregon reverts to prestatehood status if certain conditions
are met.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Whereas the Federal Government has consistently and generally exceeded its
powers as defined in the Constitution of the United States and has usurped
powers and functions "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
(10th Amendment) as
illustrated by such agencies, instrumentalities and legislation as, inter
alia, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Food and Drug Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, Environmental Protection
Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Land Management,
and has "erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harass our people, and eat out their subsistance"; and
Whereas the Federal Government has illegally and improperly abdicated its
exclusive authority "[to] coin Money" and "regulate the Value thereof,"
(section 8, Article I), combining with private interests to emit paper
currency of no tangible and real
value, thus violating the interdiction of the interests to emit paper
currency of no tangible and real value, thus violating the interdiction of
the states to "make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of
Debts" (section 10, Article I) and rendering the
economic stability of this state impossible, and severely damaging the
welfare and happiness of its people; and
Whereas the Federal Government has promoted and executed schemes of "social
engineering" through the modality of such devices as the income tax and the
precipitation of the country into such foreign conflicts as World Wars I and
II, the Korean "Police
Action," and the Vietnam War, "Desert Storm," and the interventions in
Somalia and Haiti, whereby profound societal changes have been wrought
without the informed awareness and consent of the people, which changes being
contrary to the spirit and intent
of both the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Oregon;
and
Whereas the Federal Government has improperly and illegally arrogated to
itself vast tracts of land within the State of Oregon, thus depriving this
state and the people thereof of the maximum economic advantage of those
tracts in violation of the
constitutional provision that land retained and administered by that
Government shall be "purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State
in which the Same shall be," and shall be only "for the Erection of Forts,
Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other
needful Buildings" (section 8, Article I); now, therefor,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
1. That should the Congress of the United States and the President fail to
declare, within two years of the promulgation of this Resolution, the
nullification of the so-called national debt, to abolish the Federal Reserve
System and to remonetize gold and silver and
restore them to coinage in general circulation; and
2. That should the Congress of the United States, or either house thereof,
allow to be promulgated any treaty, protocol, accord or any other form of
international understanding or agreement, or fail, within two years of the
promulgation of this Resolution, specifically to annul any treaty heretofore
approved that in any manner or to any degree violates any provision of the
Constitution of the United States; and
3. That should the President of the United States, by executive order or
any other device, declare martial law or attempt to abolish, suspend or to
any extent, or any other fashion render inoperative, ineffective or
nonobtaining the Constitution of the United
States, either in whole or in part; and
4. That should the Congress or the President of the United States attempt
in any manner, either through treaty of other mechanism, to subvert the
sovereignty and independence of these United States, or to alienate any of
the territories, either of the state
or of these United States, to a foreign nation or international
organization, and, within two years of the promulgation of this Resolution,
fail to annul and reverse any such measures
that may have been taken heretofore;
Then this State of Oregon shall automatically revert to its original status
as a "free, Sovereign, and Independent Republic," as defined in the Treaty of
Paris of 1783, restoring to itself all of the powers and functions affected
to the Federal Government by its
Statehood Compact, and shall, when joined by others of its sister states,
work with all diligence and dedication toward the formation of a new union
embodying the liberty and freedom that are the essence of the present
Constitution.
