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activities currently undertaken by the federal government is or

are authorized by the Constitution; and be it further

RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be delivered
to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the
Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United
States Congress, and the Archivist of the United States; to the
members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives
from this State; and to the presiding officers of each of the
legislative chambers in the several states, requesting their

cooperation.

Adopted by the Senate, April 9, 2014.

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secrdtary of the Senate Presidehd of the Senate

Concurred in by the House of Representatives, December 3,
2014.

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calling for a convention currently pending in the 188th
Massachusetts legislature as §.1727 and H.3190, the 2013-2014
Vermont legislature as J.R.S. 27, and the 2013-2014 California
legislature as AJR 1, and all other passed, pending, and future
applications, the aforementioned concerns of Illinois
notwithstanding until such time as two-thirds of the several
states have applied for a Convention and that Convention is

convened by Congress; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING
HEREIN, that we, the legislature of the State of Illinois, hereby
make application to the Congress, under the provisions of Article
V of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a

convention for proposing amendments; and be it further

RESOLVED, That this application shall be deemed an application
for a convention to address each and any of the subjects listed
in this resolution; for purposes of determining whether two-thirds
of the states have applied for a convention addressing any
subject, this application is to be aggregated with the
applications of any other state legislatures limited to one or

more of the subjects listed in this resolution; and be it further

RESOLVED, That this resolution constitutes a continuing
application and remains in effect until rescission by any sitting
session of the legislature of this State; this application does

not constitute a recognition that any particular activity or


808 GOODLATTE, Virginia
CHAIRMAN.

ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS

Congress of the Wnited States

House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

2138 RayeurN House OFFice BUILDING
WasuineTon, DC 20515-6216

(202) 225-3951

http:iwww. house.govijudiciary

January 29, 2015

The Honorable Karen Haas

Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol, Room H154

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Clerk,

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (114th Congress), I hereby designate the
attached Memorial from the State of Illinois, received by the House of Representatives in the
year 2015, 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,

dlatte
Chairman


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STATE OF ILLINOIS
NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SENATE

Senate Joint Resolution No, 42

Offered by Senators Delgado, Noland, Collins, Bush, Harmon,
Steans, Biss, Martinez, Raoul, Hunter and Hutchinson;
Senator J. Cullerton, President of the Senate;
and Senators Mufioz, Lightford, Jacobs, Mulroe, Jones,
Harris, Stadelman, Van Pelt, Cunningham and Holmes

WHEREAS, The first President of the United States, George
Washington, stated in his Farewell Address: "The basis of our
political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter

their Constitutions of Government."; and

WHEREAS, It was the stated intention of the framers of the
Constitution of the United States of America that the Congress of
the United States of America should be "dependent on the people

alone" (James Madison, Federalist 52); and

WHEREAS, That dependency has evolved from a dependency on the
people alone to a dependency on those who spend excessively in

elections, through campaigns or third-party groups; and

WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court ruling in Citizens

United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010),


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removed restrictions on amounts of independent political

spending; and

WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution requires
the United States Congress to call a convention for proposing
amendments upon application of two-thirds of the legislatures of
the several states for the purpose of proposing amendments to the

United States Constitution; and

WHEREAS, The State of Illinois sees the need for a convention
to propose amendments in order to address concerns such as those
raised by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and related cases
and events, including those occurring long before or afterward,
or for a substantially similar purpose, and desires that the

convention should be so limited; and

WHEREAS, The State of Illinois desires that the delegates to
the convention shall be comprised equally from individuals
currently elected to State and local office, or be selected by
election in each Congressional district for the purpose of serving
as delegates, though all individuals elected or appointed to
federal office, now or in the past, be prohibited from serving as
delegates to the Convention, and intends to retain the ability to
restrict or expand the power of its delegates within the limits

expressed above; and

WHEREAS, The State of Illinois intends that this be a

continuing application, considered together with applications