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and "right to work" protection,
and has the right to operate and maintain a public school system utilizing
such educational methods therein as in her judgment are conducive to
the welfare of those to be educated and the people of the State generally,
this being a governmental responsibility which the State has assumed
lawfully, and her rights in this respect have not in any wise been delegated
to the Central Government, but, on the contrary, she and the other States
have reserved such matters to themselves by the terms of the Tenth Amendment.
Being possessed of the lawful right, the Stat of Florida is possessed
of power to repel every unlawful interference therewith;
That the duty and responsibility of protecting life, property
and the priceless possessions of freedom rest upon the Government of
Florida as to all those within her territorial limits. The State alone
has this responsibility. Laboring under this high obligation she is possessed
of the means to effectuate it. It is the duty of the State in flagrant
cases such as this to interpose its powers between its people and the
effort of said Court to assert an unlawful domination over them; THEREFORE,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, THE SENATE CONCURRING:
Section 1. That said decisions and orders of the Supreme
Court of the United States denying the individual sovereign states the
power to enact laws relating to espionage or subversion, criminal proceedings,
the dismissal of public employees for refusal to answer questions concerning
their connections with communism, "right to work" protection,
(and relating to separation of the races in the public institutions of
a State) are null, void and of no force or effect.
Section 2. That the elected representatives of the people
of Florida do now seriously declare that it is the
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