WV HCR53

Asserts that West Virginia has legal standing in all judicial matters affecting the state's residents, based on Tenth Amendment principles and state sovereignty

Declares that the state will not recognize any judicial authority that denies West Virginia standing in cases impacting its people

Cites the West Virginia Constitution's Article I, which reserves exclusive regulation of internal government to the state and mandates protection from federal encroachments

Proclaims that any efforts to restrict West Virginia's standing in such matters are "illegal, void and an attack on the sovereignty of the People and State of West Virginia"

References founding principles including the Declaration of Independence and James Madison's writings on state sovereignty to support the state's constitutional authority