Bill Text: FL S1920 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Irish People/Reunification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-03 - Adopted [S1920 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1920-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                            (NP)    SR 1920
       
       
       
       By Senator Simmons
       
       
       
       
       10-05675A-13                                          20131920__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution supporting the efforts of the Irish
    3         people to arrive at a peaceful solution on the
    4         question of reunification.
    5  
    6         WHEREAS, Ireland and its people are an ancient and distinct
    7  nation, and
    8         WHEREAS, Ireland is an island nation that is composed of 32
    9  counties that in the 1920s was artificially divided into a 26
   10  county region, the Irish Republic, and a 6-county unit, Northern
   11  Ireland, and
   12         WHEREAS, this division of the Irish nation was designed to
   13  be transitory, and
   14         WHEREAS, history has demonstrated that the Irish people
   15  have the right and responsibility to govern themselves, and
   16         WHEREAS, human and civic rights derive their just powers
   17  from the consent of the governed and are best guaranteed by a
   18  freely instituted, duly elected, and independent government, and
   19         WHEREAS, the Irish Republic is a member of the European
   20  Economic Union, and a unified, independent Irish economy is the
   21  most effective way for that economy to grow and the most fair
   22  and impartial path to extend the benefits of such growth to all
   23  Ireland, and
   24         WHEREAS, a unified independent Irish society is most likely
   25  to provide for the social and practical needs of its people, and
   26         WHEREAS, the historic Good Friday Agreement, negotiated
   27  with American support and ratified by the British and Irish
   28  governments, as well as by vote of the electorate of the entire
   29  island of Ireland, includes provisions for achieving a united
   30  Ireland through purely democratic and peaceful means, NOW,
   31  THEREFORE,
   32  
   33  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   35         That we support the efforts of the Irish people to arrive
   36  at a peaceful solution to the question of reunification.