Sec. 5. That since this application under Article V of
the Constitution of the United States is the exercise of a
fundamental power of the sovereign states under the Constitution
of the United States, it is requested that receipt of this
application by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
United States Congress be officially noted and duly entered upon
their respective records, and that the full context of this
resolution be published in the official publication of both the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress.

Sec. 6. That copies of this resolution be sent to the
Secretaries of State, presiding officers of all state
legislatures in the Union, the Clerk of the United States House
of Representatives, the Secretary of the United States Senate,
and each member of the North Carolina Congressional delegation.

Sec. 7. This resolution is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified,

this the 29th day of January, |979.

James C. Green

President of the Senate

Cou
U

Carli J. Stewart, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

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amendment to the states to require a balanced federal budget, but
the Congress has failed to act;

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Senate, the House of
Representatives concurring:

Section j. That the Congress of the United States is
requested to propose and submit to the states an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States which would require that, in
the absence of a national emergency, the federal budget be
balanced each fiscal year within four years after the amendment
is ratified by the various states.

Sec. 2. That, alternatively, this body respectfully
petitions the Congress of the United States to call a convention
for the. exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal
budget in the absence of a national emergency.

Sec. 3. That this application constitutes a continuing
application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of
the United States until at least two-thirds of the legislatures
of the several states have made similar applications pursuant to
Article V, or until this application is rescinded by the General
Assembly of North Carolina; but if Congress proposes an amendment
to the Constitution identical in subject matter to that contained
in this joint resolution before January |, |980, this petition
for a Constitutional Convention shall no longer be of any effect,

Sec. 4. That this application and request be deemed
rescinded in the event that the convention is not limited to the

subject matter. of this application.

2 Senate: Joint Resolution |


BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
CHAIRMAN

F, JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin

LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas

STEVE CHABOT, Ohio

DARRELL E. ISSA, California

STEVE KING, lowa

TRENT FRANKS, Arizona

LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas

JIM JORDAN, Ohio

TED POE, Texas

JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania

TREY GOWDY, South Carolina

RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho

BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas

DOUG COLLINS, Georgia

RON DeSANTIS, Florida

KEN BUCK, Colorado

JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas

MARTHA ROBY, Alabama

MATT GAETZ, Florida

MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana

ANDY BIGGS, Arizona

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

Congress of the Wnited States

House of Representatives
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The Honorable Karen Haas
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol, Room H154

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Clerk,

JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
RANKING MEMBER

JERROLD NADLER, New York
ZOE LOFGREN, California

SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas

STEVE COHEN, Tennessee

HENRY C. “HANK” JOHNSON, JR., Georgia
‘TED DEUTCH, Florida

LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois

KAREN BASS, California

CEDRIC L. RICHMOND, Louisiana

HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, New York

DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island

ERIC SWALWELL, California

TED LIEU, California

JAMIE RASKIN, Maryland

PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington

BRAD SCHNEIDER, Illinois

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (1 14" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of North Carolina, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1979, as
purporting to be an application of the State legislature calling for a convention for proposing amendments
to the Constitution of the United States pursuant to Article V, and request that you make it publicly

available.

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Department of The Secretary of State

I, THAD EURE, Secretary of State of the State of
North Carolina, do hereby certify the following and hereto

attached THREE (3) sheets to be a
true copy of RESOLUTION 5 , 1979 Sessions Laws
entitled

A JOINT RESOLUTION APPLYING TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES TO CALL A CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT TO THS

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO REQUIRE A BALANCED
FEDERAL BUDGET.

ratified on the 29th day of January , 1979 , by
The General Assembly of North Carolina

the original of which is now on file and a matter of record
in this office.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand

and affixed my official seal.
DONE IN OFFICE at Raleigh, this

the 14th day of February Fi 19 79

Secretary Pf State



RESOLUTION 5
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION ]j
A JOINT RESOLUTION APPLYING TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
TO CALL A CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO REQUIRE A BALANCED FEDERAL
BUDGET.

Whereas, believing that inflation is the most serious
problem facing the people of the United States, and the primary
cause of inflation is. unchecked federal spending; and

Whereas, the State of North Carolina is required by its
Constitution to have a balanced budget, and has long operated on
a sound fiscal basis which the federal government would be well-
served to emulate; and

Whereas, under Article vV of the Constitution of the
United States, amendments to the federal Constitution may he
proposed by the Congress whenever two-thirds of both houses deem
it necessary, or on the application of the legislatures of two-
thirds of the several states, the Congress shall call a
Constitutional Convention for the purpose of proposing amendments
which shall be valid when ratified by the legislatures of three-
fourths of the several states or by conventions in three-fourths
thereof;

Whereas, by Resolution 97 of the General Assembly,

catified July |, |977, the Congress was requested to submit an