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Senate passes State Sovereignty resolution after extended floor debate
Summary
After a lengthy floor debate on federalism and the role of federal programs, the Utah Senate approved SCR3, a resolution urging reassertion of state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment; the measure passed 23–3 with three absences and will be placed on third-reading calendar.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 3, a floor resolution urging reassertion of state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment, drew extended floor debate before passage on Day 22.
Sponsor Senator Adams framed SCR3 as a nonbinding reaffirmation of the founders’ principle that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. ‘‘The tenth amendment says, the powers not delegated to The United States by the constitution nor prohibited to it to the states are reserved to the states respectively or the people,’’ Adams said as he distributed copies of the Constitution for senators to follow along.
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