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Senate Joint Resolution 1 to make an application to the
United States congress to call a convention to propose a
specified amendment to the United States constitution;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO that House Joint Resolution Number 12,
passed in the first session of the twentieth legislature of
the state of New Mexico, Senate Joint Resolution Number 2,
passed in the first session of the twenty-seventh legislature
of the state of New Mexico, and Senate Joint Resolution 1,
passed in the second session of the thirty-second legislature
of the state of New Mexico, be rescinded; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be
transmitted, within thirty days of its passage, to the
speaker of the United States house of representatives, the
clerk of the United States house of representatives, the
president of the United States senate, the secretary of the
United States senate and the members of the New Mexico
congressional delegation; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a request be hereby made
that the official journals and record of the senate and the
house of representatives of the United States congress

include the resolution or a notice of its receipt.

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VERIFICATION

I swear or affirm that the foregoing is a true and accurate copy of House Joint Resolution 10 as
submitted to the New Mexico Secretary of State for recording.

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Subscribed and sworn before me on this LP say of July, 2017.

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BOB GOODLATIE, 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 RayeuRN House OFFice BUILDING
WasuineTon, DC 20515-6216

(202) 225-3951
httpv/www.house.gov/judiciary

August 22, 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 New Mexico, received by the House of Representatives in the year 2017, as
purporting to be a rescission of a prior 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,

bt Sedat

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


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A JOINT RESOLUTION
RESCINDING HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER 12 PASSED BY THE
LEGISLATURE IN 1951, SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER 2 PASSED
BY THE LEGISLATURE IN 1965 AND SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 1
PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN 1976, EACH OF WHICH MADE AN
APPLICATION TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOR THE CALLING OF
A CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES

CONSTITUTION.

WHEREAS, Article 5 of the United States constitution
reads in part as follows: "the Congress . . . on the
Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several
States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments,
which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and
Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the
Legislatures of three fourths of the several States"; and

WHEREAS, in 1951, the legislature of New Mexico passed
House Joint Resolution Number 12 to make an application to
the United States congress to call a convention to propose
specified amendments to the United States constitution; and

WHEREAS, in 1965, the legislature of New Mexico passed
Senate Joint Resolution Number 2 to make an application to
the United States congress to call a convention to propose a
specified amendment to the United States constitution; and

WHEREAS, in 1976, the legislature of New Mexico passed

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