Section TCT.01.01 — Council Findings

(a) Recognizing that tribal self-sufficiency cannot be fully realized without first exerting control over such matters as may be vital to tribal interests, the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council finds:

(1) That Article VII, Section l (f) of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Constitution and By-Laws (approved November 18, 1937), as amended, provides in part that the Tribal Council has the power: "To promulgate and enforce ordinances, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, governing the conduct of members of the Community....and establishing proper agencies for law enforcement of the Community," and this provision authorizes the Tribal Council to create a tribal court system and adopt a comprehensive code of law; and

(2) That the Stockbridge-Munsee Community desires to deal fairly and equitably with all persons; and

(3) That the Stockbridge-Munsee Community desires to administer, in a just and impartial fashion, all applicable laws, ordinances, regulations and policies; and

(4) That the Stockbridge-Munsee Community would best be served by a judicial system separate and independent of the legislative branch of tribal government; and

(5) That the Stockbridge-Munsee Community desires to preclude state infringement of tribal sovereignty in all matters essential to the tribe's goal of self-sufficiency.