amendment convention of the states under art. V, Constitution of the United States.

COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of
the United States; the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice President of the United States and
President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives; the Honorable Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate; the
Honorable Julie E. Adams, Secretary of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Karen L. Haas, Clerk
of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Lisa Murkowski and the Honorable Dan
Sullivan, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the
Alaska delegation in Congress; and the presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the
other 49 states.

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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

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
JOHN RUTHERFORD, Florida
KAREN HANDEL, Georgia

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

Congress of the Wnited States

House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 RAYBURN House OFFice BUILDING

WAasuiNGcTON, DC 20515-6216
(202) 225-3951

http://www. house.gov/judiciary

August 28, 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 Alaska, 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,

Z Oodlatte

Chairman


STATE OF ALASKA
THE LEGISLATURE

2016

Legislative
Source : Resolve No.
SCS CSHIR 14(STA 49

Making application to the United States Congress to call a convention of the states to propose
a countermand amendment to the Constitution of the United States as provided under art. V,
Constitution of the United States; and urging the legislatures of the other 49 states to make the
same application.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:

WHEREAS the state's sovereignty has been infringed on by the federal government,
including by the federal government's recent denial of and refusal to work with state officials
on the construction of a lifesaving road from King Cove to Cold Bay; and

WHEREAS ithe state's right and duty to provide for the use, development, and
conservation of natural resources for the maximum benefit of the people has been continually
infringed on by various federal agencies; and

WHEREAS the United States Congress has, at times, exceeded its delegated powers,
the President of the United States has, at times, exceeded the constitutional authority of the
office of the President of the United States, and the federal courts have, at times, exceeded

their authority by issuing decisions on public policy matters reserved to the states in violation

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of the principles of federalism and separation of powers, all of which have adversely affected
the state and its people; and

WHEREAS, under the authority of art. V, Constitution of the United States, the
several states should apply to the United States Congress to call a convention of the states to
amend the United States Constitution and adopt a countermand amendment to authorize the
states, upon a vote of three-fifths of the state legislatures, to nullify and repeal a federal
statute, executive order, judicial decision, regulatory decision by a federal government
agency, or government mandate imposed on the states by law that adversely affects the
interests of the states, in order to properly exercise the states’ constitutional authority to check
federal power, preserve state sovereignty, and protect the rights of the states and the people;
and

WHEREAS the states have the authority to define and limit the agenda of a
convention to a single-issue "countermand amendment convention" called for by the states as
provided under art. V, Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS the delegates sent by the states to a countermand amendment convention
shall have the limited authority to deliberate on and decide whether the countermand
amendment, as preapproved by state legislatures, should be sent back to the state legislatures
for ratification;

BE IT RESOLVED that, under art. V, Constitution of the United States, the Alaska
State Legislature directs the United States Congress to call a single-issue convention of the
states, called a "countermand amendment convention," for the sole purpose of deciding
whether the proposed countermand amendment should be sent back to the state legislatures
for ratification; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature directs the United States
Congress to convene the countermand amendment convention within 60 days after the date it
receives the 34th call for that convention from state legislatures; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED that this application constitutes a continuing application in
accordance with art. V, Constitution of the United States, until at least two-thirds of the
legislatures of the several states have applied for a similar convention of the states; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the legislatures of

the other 49 states to apply to the United States Congress to call a single-issue countermand

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