WHEREAS, the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

prohibits the federal government from abusing those rights of American

people which have not been enumerated in the Constitution or Bill of

Rights; and

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power

as being specifically that granted by the Constitution of the United

States and no more; and

WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments

means that the federal government was created by the states

specifically to be an agent of the states, and of the people

respectively; and

WHEREAS, today, in 2009, the states and the people are demonstrably

treated as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, many powers assumed by the federal government and federal

mandates are directly in violation of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments

to the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v.

United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply

commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and

WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some

now pending from the present administration and from Congress may

further violate the Constitution of the United States; now, therefore,

SO BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY OF THE

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,

IN ACCORD, that we hereby affirm North Carolina and her citizen's

sovereignty under the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments to the

Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise

enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution

of the United States. We also demand that the federal government halt

and reverse its practice of assuming powers and of imposing mandates

upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the

United States.