STATES STAND UNITED IN SOVEREIGNTY
OUR MISSION

We the people of United States of America, do herby re-affirm our support of and true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of The United States of America.

Our actions to support the declarations of our many states’ sovereignty under the second, ninth, and tenth amendments are not only the inherent right of each state and each individual, but are also our duty and obligation.

We contend that the States Standing United In Sovereignty movement does not have as its primary purpose the intent of secession, for if that were the ultimate goal, any reference to the Constitution would be basically unnecessary and actually duplicitous.

By declaring sovereignty in accordance with the Constitution, we endeavor to reinstall the foundations of strength that once were and soon will be again, the supreme law of our land!

Sovereignty should not normally be a necessary declaration!

However, when the rule of law has been abused and rewritten by a ruling elite to the point that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the majority have been intentionally sacrificed for the advantage of the few, a line must be drawn. That line is a morally designated point of natural order beyond which actions of necessity and the inherent right of self defense will be taken. That line is being drawn by the States Standing United In Sovereignty movement!

Thomas Jefferson’s main tasks in preparation for the writing of the Declaration of Independence were threefold:

Understand a common cause to all
Produce a unity of action
Create a committee of correspondence in each colony

Those action items are as valid now as then and translate into our real mission as follows:

1. Common cause: Re-Install The US Constitution as Supreme Law
2. Unity of Action: States Standing United In Sovereignty Declarations
3. Committee: Individual States Stand Networks and Core Site

We contend also that the work of the men that forged this nation from the battlefields to the halls of Philadelphia shall not be in vain! The governmental framework they created was as brilliant in its understanding of the insidious nature of tyranny as it was visionary in providing the tools to overcome it.

We must realize this, however! The Constitution of The United States of America is only as strong and uncompromising as those who read, understand, and defend it!
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTER OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY AGAINST EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
~~THOMAS JEFFERSON~~

75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
LC 1659

House Joint Memorial 17

Sponsored by Representatives RICHARDSON, SCHAUFLER;
Representatives BARKER, BENTZ, BERGER, BRUUN, CAMERON,
ESQUIVEL, FREEMAN, GARRARD, GILLIAM, GILMAN, HANNA, KENNEMER, KRIEGER, MAURER, OLSON, G SMITH, SPRENGER, THATCHER, WEIDNER, WHISNANT, WINGARD

SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

Urges Congress to refrain from imposing mandates on states and
to allow State of Oregon to freely exercise sovereignty granted
to it under Tenth Amendment of Constitution of United States.

JOINT MEMORIAL
To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled:
We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
Whereas the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States provides, '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 and no more; and
Whereas the scope of power 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 in 2009, the states are instead treated as agents of
the federal government; and
Whereas many federal mandates are imposed by the federal
government in direct violation of the Tenth Amendment; and
Whereas the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York
v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, 175 (1992), that Congress may not
simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the
states; and
Whereas many proposals being considered by the federal
government or pending before Congress may further violate the
Constitution of the United States; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
Oregon:
(1) The Congress of the United States of America is requested
to direct the federal government to immediately cease and desist
imposing mandates that are beyond the scope of those powers
expressly delegated by the Constitution of the United States to
the federal government, so that the State of Oregon may freely
exercise the sovereignty due the State of Oregon under the Tenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
(2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, the Senate Majority Leader, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.