Rewriting the Griego Memorial legislation
Some ways you can use this page:1. Make comments in the space at the bottom of the page. Point out what you think might constitute useful changes in text or wording. They will be added to the page comments' section with most recent comments first.2. Copy a section of the memorial and paste it in the comment form; make your revisions to that section along with notes. 3. Prefacing your revision with 'PARAGRAPH 3' or whatever would let me (or others who want to learn how to do this, it's simple) re-order the comments on a new webpage for more serious work. If we need to, I can establish different pages for specific paragraphs requiring more work...
paragraph 1:
WHEREAS, federal and state laws and regulations enacted
for the purpose of public health, safety and welfare have
caused a loss in production capacity for numerous New Mexico
businesses and are adversely affecting the revenue of the
state and local governments and the general economy; and
paragraph 2:WHEREAS, the United States and New Mexico constitutions
require compensation for property taken for public purposes;
and
paragraph 3:
WHEREAS, the United States supreme court has declared
investment-backed expectations as property that is due
compensation under the United States constitution's fifth and
fourteenth amendments; and
paragraph 4:
WHEREAS, productive capacity is classified as an
investment-backed expectation and therefore considered private
property;
paragraph 5:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the
appropriate legislative interim committee be requested to
conduct hearings concerning the loss of production due to
required compliance with regulations enacted for public
purposes and to report its findings and recommendations to the
first session of the forty-sixth legislature; and
paragraph 6:BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
transmitted to the New Mexico congressional delegation and the
New Mexico legislative council.
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Could someone more knowledgable please list the basic points in the memorial that we want to change or will fight? Do we have data that the first paragraph is true? Isn't para.3 coming into dispute with the recent Supreme Court ruling against the primacy of property rights? Can we dispute the definition of para. 4? Do we need to dispute the need for hearings laid out in para.5, or should we seek to re-contextualize them, demand statewide education on the implications of their findings, or some such?
valerie 04/30/02 20:36:04 GMT |