A petition to withdraw the U.S. from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and any other bilateral or multilateral activity which seeks to create a North American Union, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Whereas the Congress of the United States approved the North American Free Trade Agreement and was signed by Bill Clinton in 1993; Whereas the NAFTA tribunal decisions, which settles trade disputes between NAFTA member nations, supersede state and local laws, the Congress of the United States, and the United States Supreme Court; Whereas, since NAFTA was implemented, many manufacturers moved their factories out of the country; Whereas legislation has been introduced this year in the United States House of Representatives to withdraw the United States from NAFTA (House Concurrent Resolution 22); Whereas President George W. Bush established the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, with the nations of Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005; Whereas Congressman Ron Paul has written that a key to the SPP plan is an extensive new NAFTA superhighway: \"[U]nder this new \'partnership,\' a massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico, through the state of Texas.\" This highway will negatively impact the trucking industry, interstate commerce and national security; Whereas this trilateral partnership to develop a North American Union has never been presented to Congress as an agreement or treaty, and has had virtually no congressional oversight; Whereas the gradual creation of such a North American Union from a merger of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada would be a direct threat to the Constitution and national independence of the U.S., and imply an eventual end to national borders within North America; Now therefore, we the people of Delaware do petition the Delaware State Legislature to draft and pass a resolution to the United States Congress to withdraw the U.S. from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and any other bilateral or multilateral activity which seeks to create a North American Union, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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