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sovereign rights, but only certain of
these sovereign rights to a Federal Government thus constituted; and
that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, have been reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people;
That the State of Florida has at no time surrendered to
the General Government its right to exercise its powers in the filed
of labor, criminal procedure, and public education, and to maintain racially
separate public schools and other public facilities;
That the State of Florida, in ratifying the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, did not agree, nor did the other States
ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment agree, that the power to regulate
labor, criminal proceedings, public education, and to operate racially
separate public schools and other facilities was to be prohibited to
them thereby;
And as evidence of such understanding as to the inherent
power and authority of the States to regulate public education and the
maintenance of racially separate public schools, the Legislature of Florida
notes that the very Congress that submitted the Fourteenth Amendment
for ratification established separate schools in the District of Columbia
and that in more than one instance the same State Legislatures that ratified
the Fourteenth Amendment also provided of systems of racially separate
public schools;
That the Legislature of Florida denies that the Supreme
Court of the United States had the right which it asserted in the school
cases decided by it on May 17, 1954, the labor union case decided on
may 21, 1956, the cases relating to criminal proceedings decided on April
23, 1956, and January 16, 1956, the anti-sedition case decided on April
2, 1956, and
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