SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 48
Unofficial
Whereas, Article I of the United States Constitution begins "All legislative powers herein granted
shall be vested in a Congress"; and
Whereas, the Congress has exceeded the legislative powers granted in the Constitution thereby
encroaching on the powers that are "reserved to the states respectively, or to the people" as the Tenth
Amendment affirms and the rights "retained by the people" to which the Ninth Amendment refers; and
Whereas, in Federalist No. 10, James Madison wrote that "No man is allowed to be a judge in his
own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and,...with greater reason, a body of men