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SF 3423

as introduced - 91st Legislature (2019 - 2020) Posted on 02/20/2020 03:31pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.
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A joint resolution
 applying to Congress to call a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.

WHEREAS, under Article V of the Constitution of the United States, the Congress, on the
application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing
amendments to the Constitution of the United States; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it applies to the Congress
of the United States to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States that provides proposing a limit on the number of terms that
a person may be elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives and to set a
limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a member of the United States Senate.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that this
application shall be considered as covering the same subject matter as the applications from other
States to Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be
elected to the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States and the Senate of the
United States; and this application shall be aggregated with the same for the purpose of attaining
the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention on this subject,
but shall not be aggregated with any other applications on any other subject.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that this
application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution
of the United States of America until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states have
made applications on the same subject.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of Minnesota is directed to prepare
copies of this resolution and transmit it to the Speaker and the Clerk of the United States House of
Representatives, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the United States
Secretary of State, and Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress.