A Petition for Florida to Pass a State Sovereignty Resolution

The federal government has consistently and increasingly overstepped its constitutional boundaries and usurped the powers reserved to the states and to the people. State Sovereignty resolutions are being proposed in over 30 states to help stop these usurpations by claiming sovereignty under the doctrine of delegated and enumerated powers.

This doctrine was written into the Constitution to limit federal powers to those clearly enumerated within the Constitution itself. Why would specific powers be listed if the federal government was to have unlimited power? James Madison writing in The Federalist prior to the ratification of the Constitution said regarding this: "For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included."

The 9th and 10th Amendments were added several years after the Constitution was ratified to make clear this doctrine.

The 9th Amendment says: "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

The 10th Amendment says: "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.”