Bill Amendment: IL SJR0026 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly

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Bill Title: RESCIND-CORWIN AMENDMENT

Status: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SJR0026 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SJR0026-Senate_Amendment_002.html

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 26
AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend Senate Joint Resolution 26, AS
AMENDED, with reference to the page and line numbers of Senate
Amendment No. 1, by replacing from line 5 on page 1 through
line 16 on page 3 with the following:
"WHEREAS, On February 27, 1861, in an attempt to avert the
secession of Southern states, United States Representative
Thomas Corwin of Ohio proposed an amendment to the United
States Constitution that would prohibit the United States
Constitution from being amended in a manner that authorizes
Congress to abolish or interfere with the states' domestic
institutions, including slavery; and
WHEREAS, On March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment was
approved by a joint resolution of the Thirty-Sixth United
States Congress (12 Stat. 251) and was submitted to the states
under Article V of the United States Constitution for

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ratification with no deadline given for completion of its
ratification; and
WHEREAS, The Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of
Illinois ratified the Corwin Amendment in "An Act ratifying a
certain amendment to the Constitution of the United States", in
force June 2, 1863 (Public Laws 1863, p. 41); and
WHEREAS, The Corwin Amendment has not yet been ratified by
three-fourths of the states and, therefore, is not part of the
United States Constitution at this time; and
WHEREAS, It is still possible that a sufficient number of
states could belatedly ratify the Corwin Amendment thereby
adding it to the United States Constitution, as occurred with
the 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was
first proposed in 1789 and was not ratified by a sufficient
number of states until 1992; and
WHEREAS, With the end of the Civil War and the ratification
of the actual 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
in 1865, the purposes of the Corwin Amendment have become moot;
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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CONCURRING HEREIN, That the State of Illinois rescinds its 1863
ratification of the following proposition, known as the Corwin
Amendment to the United States Constitution:
"ARTICLE XIII.
No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will
authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or
interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions
thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by
the laws of said State."; and be it further