Please offer this resolution at your precinct convention!
I am sending this eblast in the hope that you will attend your precinct convention at your polling place after the polls close, and to ask if you would please consider offering the following resolution for adoption by your precinct. I wrote this resolution to work with federal legislation I have authored to restore our individual freedom and State sovereignty under the long neglected 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If you and your fellow precinct delegates adopt this resolution, and can help see that it is adopted again at the Senate District and State and National Conventions, it will strengthen our Party platform and the effectiveness of my legislation by making it difficult for the federal courts to overturn or interfere with our mutual intent: To get the federal government out of our lives and out of our pockets and truly let Texans run Texas.
The legal research, litigation, and legislative experience I gained first through my successful lawsuit to end federal Judge William Wayne Justice’s 25 year rule over Texas prisons, and now through my work in Congress have convinced me that a resolution like this one adopted at the precinct level coupled with federal legislation designed to achieve the same purpose can create an impenetrable barrier protecting our personal freedom and the autonomous sovereign authority of our State government, as the Founders intended.
To understand why this will work, remember that our individual freedom and the independent sovereign authority of our State governments have been obliterated by federal statutes enacted by Congress and enforced by the Chief Executive and the Courts. What Congress has destroyed by statute can be restored by statute. Now is the ideal moment to push for new federal laws designed to restore freedom and State sovereignty.
Precinct, district, and state conventions are the closest modern analogy to the original Conventions that created the American Republic and the Republic of Texas, so I sincerely hope that you will offer this resolution at your precinct convention. It is important we get it adopted in as many precinct and district conventions as possible, and then press to win its adoption at the State convention.
Please send this email and the resolution to friends and family around Texas, as I am, and encourage them to help.
I am confident we can restore the individual freedom our Founders meant for us to have, and the prosperity they dreamed we would have, because fiscal conservatives are going to turn out in record numbers this year to vote. We must also be sure that the conservative candidate who earns our vote takes an iron clad oath, as I do every election, to keep their word to represent you as a true fiscal conservative and work relentlessly to cut spending and cut taxes to balance the budget and to honor the Constitution by getting the federal government out of our lives so that Texans will run Texas.
Thank you entrusting me to represent you in Congress, and for taking the time to consider my request.
Sincerely,
John Culberson
Member of Congress
Texas
Whereas the Federal Government has no authority beyond what the Constitution confers, and
Whereas Chief Justice John Marshall was the most zealous advocate among the founding generation of an all powerful Federal Government, and even he understood that the 10th Amendment and the Constitution reserved all powers not delegated to the Federal Government “to the States respectively, or to the People,” and that it was self evident, as he told the Virginia Constitutional Ratification Convention in June of 1788 that “a power remains [with the people or the State] till it is given away,” and
Whereas the Republic of Texas existed as a free and sovereign nation before it adopted the U.S. Constitution and became a State in 1845, and
Whereas the laws and Constitution of the Republic of Texas guaranteed the people of Texas individual rights and liberties, and guaranteed that the people of Texas “shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions,” and that “every citizen shall have the right to bear arms in defense of himself and the Republic,” (Constitution of the Republic of Texas, Declaration of Rights, March 17, 1836), and the laws of the Republic provided for public safety and security, and
Whereas the Constitution of the Republic of Texas guaranteed that “No person’s particular services shall be demanded, nor property taken or applied to public use, unless by consent of himself or his representative, without just compensation,” and
Whereas the U. S. Constitution also guarantees the People individual rights and freedoms, and does not delegate any authority to the Federal Government to control the health or safety of ourselves or our families nor any authority to require Americans to buy health insurance or to require health care professionals to perform or not perform health care services, and since these individual liberties were guaranteed to all Texans before we joined the Union by the Constitution of the Republic of Texas,
Therefore, be it resolved by the delegates to Precinct _______ Convention held on Texas Independence Day, March 2, 2010,
That we reaffirm the reservation of our undiminished absolute right to provide for the health and safety of ourselves and our families without any interference of any kind from the Federal Government,
That unless we voluntarily enroll in a Federal health care program, we do not consent to any Federal mandate that we buy health insurance, limit our health care choices or provide health care services, and
That we will work diligently to ensure that a new majority is elected this fall to Congress that is committed to the restoration of the Constitution’s limits on the size, power, and cost of the Federal Government, and that will enact legislation designed to restore State sovereignty and individual rights and freedoms which predated the ratification of the Constitution
