Bill Text: IL SJRCA0002 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposes to amend the Bill of Rights Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that all people (rather than men) are by nature free and independent and have certain inherent and inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Provides that to secure these rights and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people (rather than men), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Effective upon being declared adopted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SJRCA0002 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SJRCA0002-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0002 Introduced 1/28/2019, by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. I, Sec. 1
Proposes to amend the Bill of Rights Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that all people (rather than men) are by nature free and independent and have certain inherent and inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Provides that to secure these rights and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people (rather than men), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Effective upon being declared adopted.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
this resolution a proposition to amend Section 1 of Article I
of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
ARTICLE I
BILL OF RIGHTS
(ILCON Art. I, Sec. 1)
SECTION 1. INHERENT AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS
All people men are by nature free and independent and have
certain inherent and inalienable rights among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights
and the protection of property, governments are instituted
among people men, deriving their just powers from the consent
of the governed.
(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
SCHEDULE
This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being

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declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
Constitutional Amendment Act.