SJ0001 - Resolution demanding equal footing.

24 Co-Sponsors

A JOINT RESOLUTION demanding that the United States Congress in consultation with the legislature of the State of Wyoming, extinguish the federal title in those public lands and subsurface resources in this State that derive from former federal territory, and do so in recognition of the sovereign rights of this State, as set forth in its congressional act of admission into the Union, and in recognition of the solemn duties resting upon Congress under the admissions, property, claims, and guarantee clauses of Article IV of the United States constitution such that the State of Wyoming shall, in due course, obtain full admission into the Union of States upon an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever.