Countermand amendment.

WORKING DRAFT
2017
State of Wyoming
17LSO-0345
Introduced
1.3

Senate

JOINT RESOLUTION
NO.

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Countermand amendment.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Peterson, Agar, Case, Hicks, Meier and Perkins and Representative(s) Biteman, Lindholm and Winters

A JOINT RESOLUTION

for

A JOINT RESOLUTION making an application to the United States Congress to call an Article V convention of the several states for the purpose of proposing the state legislatures' pre-approved single issue countermand amendment to the United States Constitution.

WHEREAS,

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States guarantees to every state a republican form of government that gives each state equal standing when calling for an Article V amendment convention
; and

WHEREAS,
Article V of the Constitution of the United States reserves to the state legislatures the right to apply for
an amendment convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the United States Constitution when Congress, the courts or the executive branch refuse to address an egregious wrong suffered by the people
; and

WHEREAS,
the state legislatures alone have the authority to limit the agenda and authority of delegates and alternates they send to an Article V convention
. This authority does not reside in the United States Congress, nor in the federal or state courts, nor in the federal or state executive branches
; and

WHEREAS,
Congress, under Article V of the United States Constitution, is required to call for an amendment convention as directed and defined by the state legislatures of the several states
.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING:

Section 1.

That

the Wyoming
State Legislature
hereby applies to
the United States Congress
, under the provisions of Article V of the United States Constitution,
to call a
single-issue co
untermand amendment convention
for
the purpose of deciding
whether the
pre-approved proposed
countermand amendment should be
returned
to the state legislatures

for ratification
.

Section 2.

That the application in section 1 of this resolution constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the several states have made identical or substantially similar applications.

Section 3.

That
Congress is directed to convene the countermand amendment convention within sixty (60) days from the date it receives the same or similar application from two-thirds (2/3) of the several states.

Section 4
.

That the Secretary of State of Wyoming transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of
the United States Congress,
to the Wyoming Congressional Delegation
and to the presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the other forty-nine (49) states
, requesting their cooperation with the purposes of this resolution
.

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