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The legislation reads: “Any official, agent, or employee of the United States
government … that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute,
rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this
act shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction must be punished by a fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars, or a term of imprisonment not exceeding
five years, or both.”
Ritze says that ObamaCare is clearly unconstitutional and therefore Oklahomans
have a responsibility to claim it “null and void” under the 10th Amendment to
the United States Constitution which reserves powers not delegated to the
federal government to the respective states or to the people.
Ritze says: “I feel very strongly that the 10th Amendment is basically the
watchdog of republic. The federal government was never intended to be as
overreaching as it has been with Obama’s health-care act.”
He went on to say: “The Founding Fathers gave us nullification. James Madison
and Thomas Jefferson spoke about it, in the Kentucky Compact, for example,
asserting we [the states] created the federal government, not the other way
around.”
The actual text of HB 1276 asserted that both the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
“are not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violate its
true meaning and intent as given by the Founders and ratifiers, and are hereby
declared to be invalid in the State of Oklahoma, shall not be recognized by this
state, are specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and
void and of no effect in this state.”
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