PHOENIX, Arizona - February 15, 2010 - Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) along with Republican Senators Ron Gould and Chuck Gray are the primary sponsors for Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 1050. Together, they have made Arizona the fourth state to introduce Cap and Trade nullification legislation, and this bill has teeth!
Known as the Freedom to Breathe Act, the legislation, if passed, would establish that any effort by “...any governmental official to enforce within the borders of the state of Arizona, federal laws or federal regulations purporting to restrict intrastate emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide or other greenhouse substances is herewith declared a violation of civil rights and unlawful under Arizona state law.”
Why would such federal enforcement be a crime? The Freedom to Breathe Act explains it clearly and succinctly:
“...to the extent that such emissions can be regulated consistent with the principles of free republican government, such power is reserved to the State of Arizona or the people under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
The resolution is brilliantly worded and declares the natural rights of Arizonans to life, liberty and property as entailed by the traditional Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty and the compact between the state and people of Arizona and the United States as of the time that Arizona was admitted to statehood on February 14, 1912.
The bill was considered by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Public Debt earlier today.
Click here to view the status of SCR 1050 and all other proposed Cap and Trade Nullification bills.
Known as the Freedom to Breathe Act, the legislation, if passed, would establish that any effort by “...any governmental official to enforce within the borders of the state of Arizona, federal laws or federal regulations purporting to restrict intrastate emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide or other greenhouse substances is herewith declared a violation of civil rights and unlawful under Arizona state law.”
Why would such federal enforcement be a crime? The Freedom to Breathe Act explains it clearly and succinctly:
“...to the extent that such emissions can be regulated consistent with the principles of free republican government, such power is reserved to the State of Arizona or the people under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
The resolution is brilliantly worded and declares the natural rights of Arizonans to life, liberty and property as entailed by the traditional Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty and the compact between the state and people of Arizona and the United States as of the time that Arizona was admitted to statehood on February 14, 1912.
The bill was considered by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Public Debt earlier today.
Click here to view the status of SCR 1050 and all other proposed Cap and Trade Nullification bills.