Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Kentucky state sovereignty resolution filed

Rep. Stan Lee filed HCR 10 on Tuesday, which would claim state sovereignty for Kentucky under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution if it passes both chambers of the General Assembly in 2010.

The resolution states the U.S. government must stop any mandates beyond its constitutional purview and repeal and stop passing any laws that require the states to act under threat of penalty or loss of federal funding.

This resolution would be taken more seriously if Kentucky weren't so heavily dependent on federal funding, but maybe that is the idea.