Wednesday, March 11, 2009

State Sovereignty Resolution Scorecard format updated

To more clearly present the status of the State Sovereignty Resolutions (and to keep my arithmetic correct), I have reorganized the scorecard into divisions as follows:

Resolutions introduced and remaining active in the current session: 18

Resolutions introduced during the current session that have been defeated by a vote of a house of the legislature; or are known likely to be defeated (for example, by a committee chairman refusing to hold a hearing, or by a committee vote): 4

Resolutions enacted to date, both current session and since 1994: 4

The special case of Hawai'i with an active case before the United States Supreme Court challenging the legality of its Statehood vote in 1959: 1

These figures will match the total number of States introducing resolutions (or a court case) asserting sovereignty: 27.

I hope you will find this helpful.

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