SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 129
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SCR129.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION - Stating findings of the Legislature and
repealing, rescinding, canceling, nullifying and superseding certain
applications made by the Legislature of the State of Idaho to call a
constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the
United States and reaffirming the request for an amendment requiring that
federal outlays shall not exceed receipts.
02/25 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/26 Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
03/01 10th ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Title apvd - to House
03/02 House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
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AYES -- Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Black, Boe, Bruneel,
Callister, Denney, Ellsworth, Gagner, Geddes, Hadley, Hammond,
Hansen(23), Jaquet, Judd, Kempton, Kendell, Kunz, Limbaugh, Linford,
Loertscher, Marley, McKague, Mortensen, Moyle, Ringo, Robison, Sali,
Smith, Smylie, Stevenson, Stoicheff, Taylor, Tippets, Williams,
Mr Speaker
NAYS -- Alltus, Campbell, Chase, Clark, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Field(13),
Field(20), Gould, Hansen(29), Henbest, Hornbeck, Jones, Kellogg,
Lake, Mader, Meyer(Duncan), Montgomery, Pischner, Pomeroy, Reynolds,
Ridinger, Schaefer, Sellman, Stone, Tilman, Trail, Watson, Wheeler,
Zimmermann
Absent and excused -- Wood
Floor Sponsor - Tippets, Smylie
Title apvd - to Senate
03/16 To enrol - Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/17 Sp signed
03/19 To Secretary of State
SCR129
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session - 1999
IN THE SENATE
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 129
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
2 STATING FINDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE, REPEALING, RESCINDING, CANCELING, VOIDING
3 AND SUPERSEDING ANY AND ALL EXTANT APPLICATIONS BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
4 STATE OF IDAHO HERETOFORE MADE DURING ANY SESSION THEREOF TO THE CONGRESS
5 OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO CALL A CONVENTION PURSUANT TO THE TERMS
6 OF ARTICLE V OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR PROPOSING ONE OR MORE
7 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION AND URGING THE LEGISLATURES OF THE OTHER
8 STATES TO DO THE SAME, REAFFIRMING THE REQUEST FOR AN AMENDMENT REQUIRING
9 THAT FEDERAL OUTLAYS NOT EXCEED RECEIPTS, AND DIRECTING COPIES OF THIS
10 RESOLUTION BE SENT TO SPECIFIED PERSONS.
11 Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
12 WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Idaho, acting with the best of
13 intentions, has, at various times, and during various sessions, previously
14 made applications to the Congress of the United States of America to call one
15 or more conventions to propose either a single amendment concerning a specific
16 subject or to call a general convention to propose an unspecified and unlim-
17 ited number of amendments to the United States Constitution, pursuant to the
18 provisions of Article V thereof; and
19 WHEREAS, former Justice of the United States of America Warren E. Burger,
20 former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Arthur J. Goldberg
21 and other leading constitutional scholars agree that such a convention may
22 propose sweeping changes to the Constitution, any limitations or restrictions
23 purportedly imposed by the states in applying for such a convention or conven-
24 tions to the contrary notwithstanding, thereby creating an imminent peril to
25 the well-established rights of the citizens and the duties of various levels
26 of government; and
27 WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States of America has been amended
28 many times in the history of this nation and may be amended many more times,
29 without the need to resort to a constitutional convention, and has been inter-
30 preted for more than two hundred years and has been found to be a sound docu-
31 ment which protects the lives and liberties of the citizens; and
32 WHEREAS, there is no need for, rather, there is great danger in, a new
33 Constitution or in opening the Constitution to sweeping changes, the adoption
34 of which would only create legal chaos in this nation and only begin the proc-
35 ess of another two centuries of litigation over its meaning and interpreta-
36 tion.
37 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
38 of the Fifty-fifth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
39 tives concurring therein, that the Legislature does hereby repeal, rescind,
40 cancel, nullify, and supersede to the same effect as if they had never been
41 passed, any and all extant applications by the Legislature of the State of
42 Idaho to the Congress of the United States of America to call a convention to
43 propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, pursu-
44 ant to the terms of Article V thereof, regardless of when or by which session
2
1 or sessions of the Idaho Legislature such applications were made and regard-
2 less of whether such applications were for a limited convention to propose one
3 or more amendments regarding one or more specific subjects and purposes or for
4 a general convention to propose an unlimited number of amendments upon an
5 unlimited number of subjects.
6 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following resolutions and memorials, be,
7 and the same are hereby specifically repealed, rescinded, canceled, nullified
8 and superseded: S.J.M. 2, 1901 Session of the Legislature; S.J.R. 2, 1927 Ses-
9 sion of the Legislature; H.C.R. 6, 1957 Session of the Legislature; S.J.M. 9,
10 1963 Session of the Legislature; H.J.M. 7, 1963 Session of the Legislature;
11 S.J.M. 1, 1965 Session of the Legislature; H.C.R. 7, 1979 Session of the Leg-
12 islature; and S.C.R. 132, 1980 Session of the Legislature.
13 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of the State of Idaho urges
14 the Legislatures of each and every state which has applied to Congress to call
15 a convention for either a general or a limited constitutional convention, to
16 repeal and rescind such applications.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, notwithstanding any other provision of this
18 Resolution, the Legislature hereby reaffirms its request to the Congress of
19 the United States of America that the Congress of the United States propose an
20 amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America requiring, in
21 the absence of a national emergency, that the total of all federal outlays for
22 any fiscal year shall not exceed the total of all federal receipts for that
23 fiscal year, which amendment may also limit the power of Congress to increase
24 federal taxes, and remit it to the several states for ratification.
25 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
26 hereby authorized and directed to send copies of this Resolution to the Secre-
27 tary of State of each state in the Union, to the presiding officers of both
28 houses of the Legislatures of each state in the Union, to the President of the
29 United States Senate, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representa-
30 tives, to the members of the Congress of the United States representing the
31 State and people of Idaho, and the administrator of General Services, Washing-
32 ton, D.C.