“We the people assembled on Missouri land and soil are united to ensure Justice, to ensure domestic tranquility, to provide for our common defense, to promote the general welfare of all our people, and to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

Treaty of Montevideo Conference 1933. The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications:

• (a) a permanent population
• (b) a defined territory.
• (c) government.
• (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
• link, Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States (1933) (hudok.info)

Senate Concurrent Resolution 34, Ninety-Fifth Missouri General Assembly Second Regular Session.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 34
WHEREAS, in the American system, sovereignty is defined as final authority, and the people, not government, are sovereign; and

WHEREAS, the people of the state of Missouri are not united with the people of the other forty-nine states that comprise the United States of America on a principle of unlimited submission to their federal government; and

WHEREAS, all power not delegated by the people to government is retained; and

WHEREAS, the people of the several states comprising the United States of America created the federal government to be their agent for certain enumerated purposes only; and

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”; and

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States, and also that which is necessary and proper to advancing those enumerated powers; with the rest being left to state governments or the people themselves; and
WHEREAS, powers, too numerous to list for the purposes of this resolution, have been exercised, past and present, by federal administrations, under the leadership of both Democrats and Republicans, which infringe on the sovereignty of the people of this state, and may further violate the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, when powers are assumed by the federal government which have not been delegated to it by the people, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy; that without this remedy, the people of Missouri would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whoever might exercise this right of judgment for them:

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the Missouri Senate, Ninety-fifth General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby affirm the sovereignty of the people of Missouri under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise delegated to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution shall serve as a notice and demand to the federal government to cease and desist any and all activities outside the scope of their constitutionally-delegated powers; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Missouri Senate be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and each member of the Missouri congressional delegation.

• Sovereignty of Missouri (mo.gov)

What the Constitution of The State of Missouri says about the people.

Art. I § 1 CONSTITUTION OF MISSOURI

Section 1. Source of political power—origin, basis and aim of government.—

That all political power is vested in and derived from the people; that all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted
solely for the good of the whole.
Source: Const. of 1875, Art. II, Sec. 1.

Section 2. Promotion of general welfare—natural rights of persons— equality under the law—purpose of government. —

That all constitutional government is intended to promote the general welfare of the people; that all persons have a natural
right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry; that all persons are created equal and are entitled to equal rights and
opportunity under the law; that to give security to these things is the principal office of government, and that when government does not confer this security, it fails in its
chief design.
Source: Const. of 1875, Art. II, Sec. 4.

Section 3. Powers of the people over internal affairs, constitution and form of government.—

That the people of this state have the inherent, sole and exclusive right to regulate the internal government and police thereof, and to alter and abolish their constitution and form of government whenever they may deem it necessary to their
safety and happiness, provided such change be not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.
Source: Const. of 1875, Art. II, Sec. 2.

Section 4. Independence of Missouri—submission of certain amendments to Constitution of the United States.—

That Missouri is a free and independent state, subject only to the Constitution of the United States; that all proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States qualifying or affecting the individual liberties of the people or which in any wise may impair the right of local self-government belonging to the people of this state, should be submitted to conventions of the people.
Source: Const. of 1875, Art. II, Sec. 3.

• CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf (mo.gov)