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
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
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June 29, 2017

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 (114"" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Missouri, received by the House of Representatives in the year 2017, 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.

Sincerely,

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4

Relating to an application to Congress for the calling of an Article V convention of states to
propose certain amendments to the United States Constitution which place limits on the
federal government.

Whereas, the Founders of our Constitution empowered state legislators to be guardians of liberty against future abuses
of power by the federal government; 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, most of which are unfunded to a great extent; and

Whereas, the federal government has ceased to live under a proper interpretation of the Constitution of the United States; and

Whereas, it is the solemn duty of the states to protect the liberty of our people - particularly for the generations to come -

to propose amendments to the United States Constitution through a convention of states under Article V to place clear restraints on these

and related abuses of power:
Now, Therefore, Be It Resoived by the members of the Missouri Senate, Ninety-ninth General Assembly, First

Regular Session, the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby apply to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the United
States Constitution, for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the United States Constitution that
impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office

for its officials and members of Congress; and
Be It Further Resolved that the General Assembly adopts this application with the following understandings (as the

term "understandings" is used within the context of "reservations, understandings, and declarations"):

(1) An application to Congress for an Article V convention confers no power on Congress other than to perform a
ministerial function to “cali” for a convention;

(2) This ministerial duty shall be performed by Congress only when Article V applications for substantially the same
purpose are received from two-thirds of the legislatures of the several states;

(3) The power of Congress to "call" a convention solely consists of the authority to name a reasonable time and place for
the initial meeting of the convention;

(4) Congress possesses no power whatsoever to name delegates to the convention, as this power remains exclusively within
the authority of the legislatures of the several states;

(5) Congress possesses no power to set the number of delegates to be sent by any states;

(6) Congress possesses no power whatsoever to determine any rules for such convention;

(7) By definition, a Convention of States means that states vote on the basis of one state, one vote;

(8) A Convention of States convened pursuant to this application is limited to consideration of topics specified herein and
no other;

(9) The General Assembly of Missouri may recall its delegates at any time for breach of their duties or violations of their

instructions;


(10) Pursuant to the text of Article V, Congress may determine whether proposed amendments shall be ratified by the
legislatures of the several states or by special state ratification conventions. The General Assembly of Missouri recommends that Congress
specify its choice on ratification methodology contemporaneously with the call for the convention;

(11) Congress possesses no power whatsoever with regard to the Article V convention beyond the two powers
acknowledged herein;

(12) Missouri places express reliance on prior legal and judicial determinations that Congress possesses no power under

Article I relative to the Article V process, and that Congress must act only as expressly specified in Article V; and

Be It Further Resolved that this application shall expire five (5) years after the passage of this resolution; and

Be It Further Resolved that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this

resolution for the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives,
each member of the Missouri Congressional delegation, and the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several states

requesting their cooperation.

Adriane D. Crouse, Secretary of the Senate, and D. Adam Crumbliss, Chief Clerk of the House, do hereby certify that
the aforementioned is a true and correct copy of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4, adopted by the Senate on April 13, 2017, and

concurred in by the House on May 12, 2017.

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SECRETARY OF THE SENATE

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CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE