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H.Res. 1587

ResolutionFederalHouseIn Committee
Recognizing that the cause of liberty demands that government should be made accountable again to the consent of the governed, and calling for the real decentralization of power through the restoration of American federalism.
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Committee
Latest Action · September 20, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Congress
111th (2009–2011)
Introduced
July 30, 2010
Cosponsors (25)
0D 25R
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Calls for: (1) a restoration of American federalism and a decentralization of government power and policymaking from the federal government to states, local communities, neighborhoods, families, and individual citizens; and (2) policy reforms that will allow the states to prove the virtues of federalism and thereby build a new nationwide consensus for decentralizing political power in the United States.

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