BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia JERROLD NADLER, New York
CHAIRMAN RANKING MINORITY MEMBER

G.S. House of Representatives

Committee on the Judiciary

Washington, BC 20515-6216
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

August 9, 2018

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 $ (114" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Arkansas, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1965, 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,

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Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
APPLYING TO CONGRESS TO CALL, A CONVENTION FOR THE
PURPOSH OF PROPGSING AN AMENDMENT ‘TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE oF

ARKANSAS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, THAT THIS

LEGISLATURE RESPECTFULLY APPLIES TO THE CONGRESS oF THE UNITED STATES

TO CALL A CONVENTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROPOSING THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE

AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,

“ARTICLE

“Section 1. Nothing in this Constitution shall prohibit any state which
shall have a bicameral legislature from apportioning the membership of one
house of such legislature on factors other than population, provided that the
plan of such apportionment shall have been submitted to and approved by a vote
of the electorate of that state.

"Section 2. Nothing in this Constitution shall restrict or limit a state
in its determination of how membership of governing bodies of its subordinate
units shall be apportioned.

"Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths
of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the

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States by the Congress,"

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that i Congress shall have proposed an amendment
to the Constitution identical with that contained in this Resolution prior to
June 1, 1965, this application for a convention shall no longer be of any force
or effect.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a duly attested copy of this Resolution be
immediately transmitted to the Secretary of the Senate of the United States,

| the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States and to each member

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