| Summary: | The State Sovereignty Commission was established by the Alabama legislature in 1963 by Act No. 514: "Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Alabama, acting under the police power of the State, and under the rights guaranteed to it by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, finds there is a definite need for legislation creating a State Sovereignty Commission, whose purpose it will be to safeguard those rights from encroachment by agencies of the federal government, and to preserve those rights necessary for the well-being and safety of its citizens and for the orderly conduct of governmental affairs . . ." Among the duties of the commission, which was part of the state executive branch, were the following: (1) protecting the sovereignty of the state from encroachment and usurpation by the federal government and (2) making special inquiries, investigations, and examinations into means of protecting the state's rights. The commission was terminated in 1978.
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