Bill Text: WV SCR11 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Asking Congress call convention for proposing amendments to impose fiscal restraints on federal government

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - To Judiciary [SCR11 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2020-SCR11-Introduced.html

SENATE Concurrent RESOLUTION 11

(By Senator Rucker)

[Introduced January 24, 2020]

 

Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for proposing amendments pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution, limited to proposing amendments that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limiting the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress; and adopting certain reservations, understandings, and declarations limiting the application.

Whereas, Executive orders by the President of the United States have become a vehicle through which the president may overstep the limits of his or her constitutional authority; and

Whereas, The concentration of power at the federal level has had the effect of making federal officials less responsive to the will of the people and more readily influenced by lobbyists, wealthy corporations, and special interests in Washington, D. C.; and

Whereas, Much of federal law is now enacted by federal bureaucrats who were never chosen by the people and have no accountability to the people whatsoever; and

Whereas, Policy decisions made at the state level tend to be more responsive to the needs and desires of the people; and

Whereas, The federal government has created a crushing national debt through improper and imprudent spending; and

Whereas, The federal government has invaded the legitimate roles of the states through the manipulative process of federal mandates, many of which are unfunded to a great extent; and

Whereas, The states have the ability to restore the responsiveness of government to the people and to restrain abuses of federal power by proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States through a limited convention of the states under Article V; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Legislature hereby applies to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for proposing amendments pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution, limited to proposing amendments that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limiting the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress; and adopting certain reservations, understandings, and declarations limiting the application; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives from West Virginia, and the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several states, requesting their cooperation.

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