<div class="xtend"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A resolution<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>memorializing the federal government to halt its practice of imposing mandates upon <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>affirming Minnesota's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>the United States.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people;" and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>WHEREAS, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>government; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>to the Constitution of the United States; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>processes of the states; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.22"></a><var>1.22</var>United States; NOW, THEREFORE,<br />
         		<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it urges the President <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>and the Congress of the United States to halt the federal government's practice of imposing <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.3"></a><var>2.3</var>mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States, <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.4"></a><var>2.4</var>and that it affirms Minnesota's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.5"></a><var>2.5</var>United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.6"></a><var>2.6</var>the Constitution of the United States.<br />
         		<a id="pl.2.7"></a><var>2.7</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.8"></a><var>2.8</var>directed to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the President of the United <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.9"></a><var>2.9</var>States, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.10"></a><var>2.10</var>the United States House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.11"></a><var>2.11</var>the chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Minnesota's Senators and Representatives <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.12"></a><var>2.12</var>in Congress.<br />
         		
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