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53	53		STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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57	57		HOUSE BILL 3180 By: Hays
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63	63		AS INTRODUCED
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65	65		An Act relating to state government; making findings
66	66		related to the Constitution of the United States;
67	67		prescribing procedures for nullification of certain
68	68		actions; prescribing form of petition for
69	69		nullification; providing for codification; and
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77	77		BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
78	78		SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new sectio n of law to be codified
79	79		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15001 of Title 74, unless there
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81	81		As used in this act:
82	82		1. "Federal action" includes federal law; a federal agency
83	83		rule, policy, or sta ndard; an executive order of the President of
84	84		the United States; an order or decision of a feder al court; and the
85	85		making or enforcing of a treaty; and
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139	139		delegated to the federal government by the people and the states
140	140		through the United States Constitution.
141	141		SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
142	142		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15002 of Title 74, unless there
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144	144		1. When "We the People" ordained and established the
145	145		Constitution of the United States of America, the people and the
146	146		states granted only specific, limited powers to the federal
147	147		government, with those areas of federal powers being enumerated in
148	148		Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States .
149	149		2. Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution of the United
150	150		States, respectively, vest the legislative, executive, and judicial
151	151		powers to and within separate branches of the federal government
152	152		(horizontal separation of powers), such that lawmaking powers are
153	153		vested only in the legislative branch of the United States Congress,
154	154		that enforcement powers are vested only in the executive bra nch
155	155		(President and executive agencies), and that judicial powers are
156	156		vested only in the judicial branch (Supreme Court of the United
157	157		States and other inferior federal courts created by the United
158	158		States Congress).
159	159		3. This horizontal separation of powers i n the Constitution of
160	160		the United States reflects the understanding that our fe deral
161	161		Founding Fathers had derived from both scripture and experience that
162	162		sinful man could not be trusted to always be virtuous and public -
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214	214		minded, and as such, they did not want undue power to be combined in
215	215		any branch of government where, if left uncheck ed, it could become
216	216		tyrannical.
217	217		4. Nothing in the Constitution of the United States permits
218	218		Congress to delegate or confer any lawmaking power to any other
219	219		branch of government, because it has no enumerated powers to create
220	220		lawmakers. When the President and federal courts are vested,
221	221		respectively, with the executive and judicial powers, neither of
222	222		those branches are granted general powers of lawmaking. Therefore,
223	223		no person, agency, or department of any other branch of the federal
224	224		government, not even th e Supreme Court or the President of the
225	225		United States, has any lawmaking power under the Constitution of the
226	226		United States.
227	227		5. In paragraph 2 of Section 7 of Article I of the Constitution
228	228		of the United States, the text describes how federal laws are to be
229	229		made. Bills must be passed by both houses of Congress and then
230	230		approved by the President (or by a presidential veto by Congress).
231	231		This is the only method of lawmaking under the Constitution of the
232	232		United States. Thus, contrary to popular opinion, feder al executive
233	233		orders, federal agency rules and regulations, and federal court
234	234		opinions are not laws at all, and they are certainly not settled law
235	235		or the supreme law of the land. Instead, any action by the
236	236		executive branch or the judicial branch that purpo rts to be law, or
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288	288		that purports to be treated as law, is a usurpation of powers not
289	289		delegated to it.
290	290		6. It is not uncommon for Congress and the federal executive
291	291		branch to erroneously elevate federal court opinions to the status
292	292		of "law", sometimes even regarding court opinions as having amended
293	293		the language of the Constitution of the United States.
294	294		7. It is not uncommon for Congress and the federal courts to
295	295		erroneously elevate federal executive orders to the status of "law",
296	296		sometimes even regardin g executive orders as having amended the
297	297		language of the Constitution of the United States .
298	298		8. The principle of "separation of powers " is so innately
299	299		representative of a republican fo rm of government that the
300	300		Constitution of Oklahoma (Article IV, Section 1) upholds and
301	301		reinforces this principle of horizontal "separation of powers "
302	302		within the three departments of Oklahoma state government.
303	303		9. When creating a federal government by ratif ying the
304	304		Constitution of the United States, the people and the states also
305	305		designed a second, and more important, "separation of powers, " that
306	306		being a vertical separation of powers between the superior sovereign
307	307		states and the inferior federal government .
308	308		10. A vertical "separation of powers " was explicitly set out in
309	309		Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States,
310	310		wherein only limited, enumerated, lawmaking powers were granted to
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363	363		11. This vertical "separation of powers" was also incorporated
364	364		into the United States Bill of Rights, whereby:
365	365		a. in the First Amendment, Congress was specifically
366	366		denied lawmaking power within those fields listed in
367	367		the First Amendment,
368	368		b. in the Ninth Amendment, the federal government wa s
369	369		specifically prohibited from interfering with righ ts
370	370		not mentioned in the C onstitution of the United
371	371		States, and
372	372		c. in the Tenth Amendment, the federal government was
373	373		specifically denied powers not delegated to it in the
374	374		Constitution of the United States .
375	375		12. This vertical "separation of powers " was generally well-
376	376		known by the people and the states, and was known and respected by
377	377		the federal government, for over one hundred (100) years of our
378	378		nation's history, but the principle has in more recent decades been
379	379		first disregarded, and subsequently even dis believed, as if the
380	380		federal government was supreme in all areas and was unlimited in its
381	381		jurisdiction. Whether this shift in jurisprudence was intentional
382	382		or accidental, active or passive, the shift is nev ertheless not
383	383		supported by the Constitution of the United States, by the laws of
384	384		the United States, or by the constitutions of any of the sovereign
385	385		states. The shift is thus an illegal usurpation of the Constitution
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437	437		of the United States, of the various st ate constitutions, and of the
438	438		unalienable rights o f the people.
439	439		13. Any federal action that violates the horizontal "separation
440	440		of powers" imposed by the Constitution of the United States, or that
441	441		exceeds the jurisdictional limits imposed by the vertical
442	442		"separation of powers, " is therefore void, since the Consti tution of
443	443		the United States is the supreme law of the land .
444	444		14. "[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void. " An act of
445	445		congress repugnant to the Constitution of the United States cannot
446	446		become a law. The Constitution supersedes all other laws and the
447	447		individual's rights shall be liberally enforced in favor of him, the
448	448		clearly intended and expressly designated beneficiary. Marbury v.
449	449		Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
450	450		15. "An unconstitutional law i s void and is as no law. An
451	451		offense created by it is not crime. A conviction under it is not
452	452		merely erroneous but is illegal and void and cannot be used as a
453	453		legal cause of imprisonment. " Ex parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371
454	454		(1879).
455	455		16. "An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights;
456	456		it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no
457	457		office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it
458	458		had never been passed. " Norton v. Shelby County , 118 U.S. 425
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511	511		17. "Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved,
512	512		there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate
513	513		them." Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).
514	514		18. As Thomas Jefferson explained in the Kentucky Resolution of
515	515		1798: "Whenso-ever the [Federal] go vernment assumes undelegated
516	516		power, its acts are unauth oritative, void and of no force." He
517	517		added, "Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a
518	518		nullification of the act is the remedy. That every state has a
519	519		natural right and duty in cases n ot within [the authority of the
520	520		Constitution]... to nul lify of their own authority all assumptions
521	521		of powers by others within their own states boundaries. " The
522	522		Constitution of the United States binds federal lawmakers by oath to
523	523		support the Constitution, and when they fail to do so, the rightful
524	524		remedy is for states to nullify their usurpations and to declare
525	525		their acts void.
526	526		19. Every constitutional officeholder, whether local, state, or
527	527		federal, must first know and understand these important
528	528		constitutional limitations of power, and thereafter, must determi ne
529	529		individually how best to defend the rights of the people and to
530	530		fulfill the oath of office. As illustrative of this principle, in
531	531		1832, Andrew Jackson, as President, vetoed a bill to recharter the
532	532		Bank of the United States.
533	533		President Jackson opposed the bank's political power and
534	534		financial influence, but his veto was based substantially on
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586	586		constitutional grounds, notwithstanding the judgment of prior
587	587		Presidents and Congress, not to mention the Supreme Court's decision
588	588		upholding the bank's validity. President Jackson argued that the
589	589		"separation of powers" principle meant that none of the branches of
590	590		the federal government can pretend to hav e exclusive or supreme
591	591		right to settle constitutional differen ces of opinion among them,
592	592		since each public officer who takes an oath to support the
593	593		Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it,
594	594		and not as it is understood by others. He further said the opinion
595	595		of judges has no more authority over congress than the opinion of
596	596		congress has over judges, and on that point, the president is
597	597		independent of both of them .
598	598		20. President Andrew Jackson 's veto illustrates that every
599	599		officeholder must reach an independent judgment about the
600	600		jurisdictional scope of the federal government un der the
601	601		Constitution of the United States and must thereafter act
602	602		consistently on those judgments .
603	603		21. The Constitution of the United States assures the people
604	604		and the states that their respective rights and powers will be
605	605		respected by the federal gov ernment.
606	606		22. Each member of the Legislature shall, before they proceed
607	607		to business, take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution
608	608		of Oklahoma, and of the United States, and also the following oath:
609	609		"I ______ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that as a member of this
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661	661		Legislature, I will, in all app ointments, vote without favor,
662	662		affection, partiality, or prejudice; and that I will not propose or
663	663		assent to any bill, vote, or resolution, which shall appear to me
664	664		injurious to the people, or consent to any act or thing, whatever,
665	665		that shall have a tenden cy to lessen or abridge their rights and
666	666		privileges, as declared by the Constitution of this state. "
667	667		23. The people are the ultimate source of human governmental
668	668		power under our constitutions, and the states, through their elected
669	669		officers, are dutybou nd to fulfill their oath of office to preserve
670	670		the rights of the people, it is therefore long overdue, and
671	671		therefore urgently necessary, for this state to prescribe the manner
672	672		in which, under the authority of the Constitutions of the United
673	673		States and of Oklahoma, the people's rights and the state 's
674	674		sovereignty may be asserted as against federal officeholders,
675	675		whether individually or collectively .
676	676		24. This act is written to aid the people and the government of
677	677		this state in the implementation and enfo rcement of the vario us
678	678		provisions of the Constitution of the United States that expressly
679	679		limit federal power and federal jurisdiction, and in fu rtherance of
680	680		the rights of the people as set forth in Section 1 of Article I and
681	681		Section 2 of Article I of the Constitution of Oklahoma.
682	682		SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
683	683		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15003 of Title 74, unless there
684	684		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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736	736		This act contemplates the rev iew of any federal action to
737	737		determine whether the action is an unconstitutional f ederal action.
738	738		When evaluating a federal action, the Legislature shall consider the
739	739		plain reading and reasoning of the text of the United States
740	740		Constitution and the underst ood definitions at the time of the
741	741		framing and construction of the Constitut ion by the framers before
742	742		making a final declaration of constitutionality, as demons trated by:
743	743		1. The ratifying debates in the several states;
744	744		2. The understanding of the leadi ng participants at the
745	745		Constitutional Convention;
746	746		3. The understanding of the doctrine in question by the
747	747		constitutions of the several states in existence at the time the
748	748		United States Constitution was adopted;
749	749		4. The understanding of the United States Constitution by the
750	750		first United States Congress;
751	751		5. The opinions of the first Chief Justice of the United States
752	752		Supreme Court;
753	753		6. The background understa nding of the doctrine in question
754	754		under the English Constitution of the time; and
755	755		7. The statements of support for nat ural law and natural rights
756	756		by the framers and the philosophers admired by the framers.
757	757		SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
758	758		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15004 of Title 74, unless there
759	759		is created a duplicat ion in numbering, reads as follows:
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811	811		It is declared that federal laws, federal executive actions, and
812	812		federal court opinions must comply with the jurisdictional
813	813		limitations of the United States Constitution. It is further
814	814		declared that any federal action o utside the enumerated powers set
815	815		forth in the United States Constitution are in violation of the
816	816		peace and safety of the people of this state, and therefore, said
817	817		acts are declared void and must be resisted.
818	818		SECTION 5. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
819	819		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15005 of Title 74, unless there
820	820		is created a duplication in n umbering, reads as follows:
821	821		The proper manner of resistance is a state action of
822	822		nullification of the fe deral action.
823	823		SECTION 6. NEW LAW A new section of law to b e codified
824	824		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15006 of Title 74, unless there
825	825		is created a duplication in n umbering, reads as follows:
826	826		A. Nullification is the process where by this state makes an
827	827		official declaration that:
828	828		1. A specific federal action has exceeded the prescribed
829	829		authority under the United States Constitution;
830	830		2. That said action, as being ult ra vires, will not be
831	831		recognized as valid within the bounds of t his state;
832	832		3. That said action, as being ultra vires, is null and void in
833	833		this state;
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885	885		4. That an officeholder, agency, or government employee,
886	886		whether state, county, or city, serving under t he authority of the
887	887		Constitution of Oklahoma shall not assist in any attempted
888	888		enforcement of said federal action; and
889	889		5. That state or local funds collected under the author ity of
890	890		the Constitution of Oklahoma shall not be used to assist in any
891	891		attempted enforcement of said federal action.
892	892		B. The Legislature has sole authority to prescribe th e crimes,
893	893		penalties, fines, or other consequences of the violation of a bill
894	894		of nullification by any person found within the boundary of this
895	895		state. Said consequence s must be specified in the bill of
896	896		nullification before a fin al vote is taken on its passa ge.
897	897		SECTION 7. NEW LAW A new section of law to be cod ified
898	898		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15007 of Title 74, unless there
899	899		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
900	900		State nullification of federal action may be acc omplished in any
901	901		of the following ways:
902	902		1. The Governor may, by the Governor's own executive authority,
903	903		issue an executive order nullifying the same, whereby all exe cutive
904	904		departments of the state are bound by said order;
905	905		2. Any member of the Legislature may introduce a bill of
906	906		nullification in the Legislature. For any such proposed bill of
907	907		nullification, the bill is not subject to debate or passage in
908	908		committees, and proceeds directly to the floor of each hous e, where
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960	960		said bill shall, within five (5) le gislative days, be scheduled for
961	961		debate on the floor of each house, and thereafter, within three (3)
962	962		legislative days after the debate is closed, shall be presented f or
963	963		a roll call vote on each floor. The bill, if passed in the same
964	964		manner as other genera l law, has the force and e ffect of law, and
965	965		becomes effective immediately upon enactment. The time constraints
966	966		listed in this paragraph may be changed by majority vo te of any
967	967		house of subsequent general as semblies;
968	968		3. Any court operating under the author ity of the Constitution
969	969		of Oklahoma may render a finding or a holding of nullification in
970	970		any case of which it otherwise has proper venue and jurisdiction,
971	971		wherein the parties to said case will, upon fina l judgment, be bound
972	972		thereby in the same manner as i n other cases;
973	973		4. Any combination of ten (10) counties and municipalities may,
974	974		through the action of the executive or through the action of a
975	975		majority of the governi ng legislative body, submit a petitio n of
976	976		nullification to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of
977	977		Representatives, with a copy to the Office of the Attorney General,
978	978		and upon satisfactory proof that said petitions are valid, the
979	979		Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives shall proceed to
980	980		introduce the bill and follow the same methods and pr otocols as
981	981		described in paragraph 2 of this section; and
982	982		5. Subject to the requirements of this paragraph, the signed
983	983		petitions of two thousand (2,000) registered vo ters of this state
984	984
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1035	1035		may submit a petition of nullification to the Speaker of the
1036	1036		Oklahoma House of Representatives, with a copy to the Office of the
1037	1037		Attorney General, and upon satisfactor y proof that said signatures
1038	1038		are valid, the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
1039	1039		shall proceed to introduce the bill and follow the same methods and
1040	1040		protocols as described in paragraph 2 of this section. Said voter
1041	1041		petitions must not be submitt ed individually, but said petitions
1042	1042		must be coordinated and compiled in batches, by county of voter
1043	1043		registration, of not less than twenty -five (25) voters per county in
1044	1044		a bundled batch. In addition to the other requirements of this
1045	1045		paragraph, at least twenty-five (25) signatures of the total number
1046	1046		of signatures shall be required to have been obtained from the
1047	1047		residents of two-thirds (2/3) of the seventy -seven (77) counties of
1048	1048		the state which shall for purposes of this provision be counted as
1049	1049		fifty-two (52) counties of the state.
1050	1050		SECTION 8. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
1051	1051		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15008 of Title 74, unless there
1052	1052		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
1053	1053		Before conducting a roll call vote on the floor of each house of
1054	1054		the Legislature, the several committees of the Legislature may
1055	1055		debate any bill of nullification, express its approval or
1056	1056		disapproval, and add any penalty for violations of the bill. The
1057	1057		results of all committee actions, as well as the result of the roll
1058	1058		call vote on each house floor, s hall be published in the official
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1110	1110		records of each chamber and disseminated to the people i n the same
1111	1111		manner as with other bills.
1112	1112		SECTION 9. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
1113	1113		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15009 of Title 74, unless there
1114	1114		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
1115	1115		The procedures contained in this act are available to challenge
1116	1116		any federal action, whether said action is past, present, or future.
1117	1117		A bill of nullification must not be rejected because of any
1118	1118		perceived statute of limitation or because said federal action was
1119	1119		taken in the distant past. Any federal action may be considered, or
1120	1120		reconsidered, as the people or their representatives may think
1121	1121		proper.
1122	1122		SECTION 10. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
1123	1123		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15010 of Title 74, unless there
1124	1124		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
1125	1125		Regarding the same federal action, a bill of nullifica tion must
1126	1126		not be considered by t he Legislature more than once each year. If
1127	1127		said bill fails, then it may be c onsidered again in any succeeding
1128	1128		year, but not more than once per year.
1129	1129		SECTION 11. NEW LAW A new section of law to be c odified
1130	1130		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15011 of Title 74, unless there
1131	1131		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
1132	1132
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1183	1183		Formal pleadings or petitions are not required for a bill of
1184	1184		nullification. It is sufficient if the pleading or petition is in
1185	1185		substantially the form as set forth below:
1186	1186		Petition for Action Under the
1187	1187		"Restoring State Sovereignty Throu gh Nullification Act."
1188	1188		Regarding your claim that the federal government has exceeded its
1189	1189		authority under the U.S. Constitution, please list the following:
1190	1190		1. Date or Year of federal action: __________ ___________
1191	1191		2. Identify the federal branch, official, or agency:
1192	1192		_________________________
1193	1193		3. Give the official name of the action, if known. If not known,
1194	1194		then give the name by which the action is commonly known or
1195	1195		identified: __________________________ _____________________________
1196	1196		____________________________________ ________________________________
1197	1197		__________________________ __________________________________________
1198	1198		4. Identify the specific action, or part of the action, that you
1199	1199		assert is unconstitutional:
1200	1200		_____________________________________________________________ _______
1201	1201		_______________________________________________________________ _____
1202	1202		Identification of Petitioner (Registered Voter):
1203	1203		____________________________ _____________________________
1204	1204		Signature Printed Name
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1256	1256		_________________________________ ___________________________________
1257	1257		______________________________ Street Address, City, County — Must
1258	1258		match voter registration.
1259	1259		SECTION 12. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
1260	1260
1261	1261		59-2-8566 MAH 01/16/24