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In This
Issue .
Happy New
Year .
State
Sovereignty .
A Little Bit
of Humor. E-Mail
cynthia.davis@house.mo.gov Find me
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Happy
New Year! What a
marvelous opportunity to start all over again. I am so grateful to
begin my 8th year as your State Representative.
Every
year has a different set of surprises and challenges, yet all are
instructive. 2010 will be better than 2009 just for the additional
experience we have all gleaned from last year.
Some of
the happiest moments of this year have come from constituents who I have
helped. There is nothing more satisfying than to have someone walk
up to me in the grocery store and tell me how my office made a difference
in his or her life. I hope to always use my office to make
We were
all made for a reason---to make a difference in this world. Some
make differences for good and others for the worse. Everyone has a
unique calling to discover who we are and to discover on what we ought to
be spending our time. One of
my favorite philosophers said, "Time is life. Money is congealed
life." How we spend our time and money shows who we are and what we
think is important. I hope at the end of your life you have as much
joy as I do---joy that comes from knowing who I am and what I am supposed
to be doing. This is
going to be a particularly great year because I am working on some of the
best legislation filed thus far. With all the unhappiness people
have over the economy and a general lack of responsiveness from our
government, I have a resolution that really says everything on my heart
and hopefully what is on the hearts of those who I represent.
That's
why I am filing the following declaration of Whereas,
the
Declaration of Independence
declared these
United States
bound by the
tyranny of a
government that
was unresponsive to
its
citizens, as set forth
in the
following language: "We
hold
these
truths
to be
self-evident, that
all Men are
created
equal, that
they are
endowed by their Creator with
certain
unalienable Rights, that
among these are
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness---
That to secure
these
Rights, Governments are
instituted
among
Men, deriving their just Powers
from the Consent of
the Governed
... ";
and Whereas,
some states when
ratifying the
Constitution
of the
America recommended as a
change, "that it be
explicitly declared that all
powers not
expressly and
particularly
delegated by the
aforesaid are
reserved
to the
several states to be
by them
exercised"; and Whereas,
these recommended
changes
were incorporated
as the
Ninth Amendment, where, "The enumeration of
certain rights
shall
not be construed to
deny or
disparage
others
retained
by the
people"; and Whereas,
the
Tenth
Amendment sets
firm
limits on
federal power
to that which
is defined by the states and
the
citizens when it
says, "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
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 which allow us to craft
our own
laws
specifically
tailored
to
reflect the
values, public morals
and fiscal
benevolence
of our
own
citizens;
and Whereas,
the
Constitution
of Missouri
expresses
the powers of the people in
Article
I, Section
3, by declaring, "That
the people of this state
have the
inherent, sole and exclusive right
to regulate
the internal
government and police
thereof, and
to alter
and
abolish their
constitution and form
of
government
whenever they may deem
it necessary to their
safety and
happiness, provided such
change be not
repugnant to the
Constitution of the United States."; and Whereas,
the Constitution
of Missouri
expresses
the independence of our state in
Article I, Section 4, by declaring, "That
Missouri is a
free
and
independent
state, su Whereas,
the founders of
this nation
rejected
the principles of
socialism, communism, and
other
forms of
tyrannical governments that
allow for
redistribution of the wealth, preferring instead to set
up a constitutional republican
form of government, based
upon Judeo-Christian
beliefs that
encourage limited
government, personal
responsibility and
respect for human
life;
and Whereas,
among these
rights, the
State of state statutes, Section
1.205, RSMo,
that:
(1) The life
of each
human
being begins at conception; (2) Unborn children have
protectable interests in
life,
health, and
well-being; (3) The natural parents
of unborn
children have protectable
interests in
the life, health, and well-being of
their unborn child;
and Whereas,
some policies
coming forth from
the national
government appear
to be in conflict of the rights of our
citizens, specifically the rights of
conscience which
are gravely jeopardized
by national policies that
may compel
persons of
faith to compromise
their
deepest
convictions; and Whereas,
it
is the role of
the national government
to protect our
borders and
to secure our
liberty,
especially safeguarding us against those who
adhere to
philosophies that conflict with our
uniquely American and Missouri
values of
freedom and
equality; and Whereas,
today, in
2010, the states are
treated as
little more than administrative
agents
of bailouts, government schools,
healthcare, and welfare programs, none
of which are
constitutionally authorized
functions of the
federal
government;
and Whereas,
the
national government is diminishing our future prosperity by escalating
the national debt at an
unprecedented rate
by squandering
trillions of
taxpayer dollars
and
demonstrating wanton
disregard for
protecting
us
and our
posterity from
insurmountable financial
burdens, which in
large part originates
from spending beyond the legitimate authority derived from
the United States
Constitution; and Whereas,
the economic
principles that
allowed our
country to
flourish and prosper
were
based
upon
our trust in
God, economic
freedom, hard work, high moral standards, and
private
charity, all of which
are suppressed
in
the socialist
model; and Whereas,
federal judges
are charged with
the duty of adjudicating
according to the
dictates of the United States
Constitution in a
fair, just, and impartial
manner and
are not charged with
crafting
political
preferences or
interjecting
their
personal
philosophies through
their
court
decisions; and Whereas,
some of the
most egregious usurpations of
legislative
power have come from appointed federal
judges who craft rulings that strip
our citizens of their constitutional right to
religious
speech, such as
ruling
to remove
all
references to God
Almighty
and suppressing
our right
to display the Ten
Commandments in a public
arena, declaring
prayers in public
places illegal, and
forcing an atheistic
culture upon our
citizens: Now,
therefore,
be
it resolved that we,
the members
of the House of
Representatives, Ninety-fifth
General
Assembly, Second Regular
Session, the Senate
concurring
therein, hereby
declare that the people
of this state
have the
sole and exclusive right
of governing
themselves as a
free, sovereign, and independent state, and shall
exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and
right pertaining
thereto, over
all powers not
otherwise
enumerated and granted
to the federal government
by the
Constitution
of the United
States; and Be
it further resolved that
this resolution shall
serve as Notice and
Demand that
federal
judicial
appointments be
based upon
the appointee's ability to uphold
a strict interpretation
of the language
written in the
United States
Constitution, not
personal philosophy, political
patronage, or level of ignorance of
the jurisdiction between
the legislative and judicial
branches of our
government;
and Be
it further resolved that
the State of is
a natural and
fundamental right of parents to direct the care, education, and upbringing of their
children of which such
right cannot be removed
by the
federal government, not any international treaty of
any sort;
and
that the State of
Missouri
will be under
no obligation to
comply with any
international treaties
that undermine our
inalienable rights to
direct our families
and our children in a
manner
consistent
with our
religious beliefs, dictates of
our conscience, and
heritage; and Be it
further
resolved
that
this resolution
shall serve
as Notice and Demand to
the
federal
government that we
will not
tolerate our
tax dollars being spent on
abortion, drugs, research, or procedures that
destroy unborn
human
life, nor
any policies
that
disregard
the freedom of
conscience of any citizen of
our country or any
other;
and Be
it further
resolved that
this
resolution serves
as Notice and
Decree
that the
national
government has no
authority to impose
assisted
suicide
or euthanasia, nor to impose any
rules
purporting to
force
our
state to acknowledge immoral
sexual
perversions as a
marriage or the
equivalent; and. Be
it
further
resolved
that
this resolution serve as
Notice and Decree to the federal government, to cease
and
desist, effective
immediately, mandates
that are
beyond the scope of its constitutionally delegated
powers, especially those based upon
unproven science such as a global
warming
alarmism
as well
as mandates that show no regard
for our state laws as they pertain to
agricultural
practices, manufacturing
practices, motor
vehicle operation
and energy generation
options; and Be
it further
resolved that
all compulsory federal legislation which directs states to
comply under
threat of penalties, sanctions, or
financial manipulations or which
requires states to
pass
legislation or lose
federal
funding be
prohibited or
repealed,
especially those
which
pertain to
education, health
care, housing, and our
highways when
such federal
funds are collected in
any part
from the
tax-paying
citizens or businesses
of the
sovereign
State of
Missouri; and Be
it further resolved
that based on
the above
principles and
provisions, the Missouri
General Assembly
hereby
declares
by this resolution that
any act
by the
Congress of
the United States, Executive Order of
the
President of
the
United
States, or
Judicial
Order
by the federal
courts
which
assumes a power not
delegated to
the
government of
the United States by
the
Constitution
and
which
serves to
diminish the
liberty of any of the
several states or
their citizens
shall abridge
the
Constitution. The Missouri General
Assembly further
declares that
any acts
which
would
cause such
an
abridgment
include, but are
not
limited
to: (1) Establishing
martial
law or a
state of emergency within
any state
comprising the
(2)
Requiring
involuntary
servitude, or
governmental service
of persons under
the age of
eighteen other than
pursuant
to, or as an
alternative to, incarceration after
due process
of
law or other than a draft
during a declared war; (3)
Surrendering any power delegated or
not delegated to any
corporation or
foreign
government; (4) Any act
regarding religion, further limitations on
freedom of political
speech, or further
limitations on freedom
of the
press; (5) Further
infringements on
the right
to keep and
bear arms, including
attempts to put serial
numbers
in ammunition and
acts that prohibit the
types or
quantities of arms or ammunition; and Be
it further
resolved
that the Chief Clerk of
the Missouri House
of Representatives be instructed
to
prepare a
properly inscribed
copy of this resolution for
Governor Jay Nixon;
Barack
Obama, President
of the Your
thoughts are important to me, so please let me know what you of this state
sovereignty resolution. You
can send me your opinion by clicking here: Cynthia Davis A Little Bit of Humor . . .
PUNCTUATION An
English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing", on
the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
The men
wrote: "Woman,
without her man, is nothing." The
women wrote: "Woman!
Without her, man is nothing."
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