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Whereas, believing that fiscal irresponsibility at the Federal level,
with the resulting inflation and decline in the Nation’s trading posi-
tion is a growing and corrosive threat to our economy, to the well-
being of our people, and to our representative democracy, that con-
stitutional restraint is necessary to bring the fiscal discipline needed
to reverse this trend. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives con-
curring:

‘That Congress is requested, pursuant to Article V of the United
States Constitution, to call a constitutional convention for the specific
and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the Federal
Constitution.

Be it further resolved that the proposed new amendment read
substantially as follows:

“Proposed Article XXVII

The total of all federal appropriations made by the Congress for
any fiscal year shall not exceed the total of the estimated federal
revenues for that fiscal year, excluding any revenues derived from
borrowing, and this prohibition extends to all federal appropriations
and all estimated federal revenues, excluding any revenues derived
from borrowing. The President in submitting budgetary requests and
the Congress in enacting appropriation bills shall comply with this
article.

The provisions of this article shall be suspended for one year
upon the proclamation by the President of an unlimited national
emergency. The suspension may be extended, but not for more than
one year at any one time, if two-thirds of the membership of both
Houses of Congress so determine by Joint Resolution.” »

Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded
to the President of the United States, the President of the United
States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Repre-
sentatives and to each member of Congress from South Carolina.

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CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE AND JORRECT COPY
AS TAKEN FROM AXD COMPARED WITH THE

ORIGINAL ON FILE IN THIS OFFICE,

SECRETARY OF STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA



Calendar No. S. 1024

By SENATORS GRESSETTE and DENNIS
S. Printer’s No. 436—S. Introduced May 3, 1978.

THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

‘To whom was referred a Concurrent Resolution (S. 1024), me-
morializing Congress to call a Constitutional Convention, etc., re-
spectfully

REPORT:

‘That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recom-
mend that the same do pass.

C. ANTHONY HARRIS, for Committee.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Memorializing Congress to Call a Constitutional Convention for the
Purpose of Amending the Federal Constitution to Limit Annual
Federal Appropriations to Annual Revenues, with Certain
Exceptions.

Whereas, with each passing year this Nation becomes more deeply
in debt as congressional expenditures grossly and repeatedly exceed
available revenues so that the public debt now exceeds a half-t®llion
dollars ; and

Whereas, attempts to limit spending by means of the new con-
gressional budget committee procedures have proved fruitless; and

Whereas, the annual Federal budget repeatedly demonstrates an
unwillingness or inability of both the legislative and executive
branches of the Federal government to curtail spending to conform
to available revenues; and

Whereas, the proposed budget of five hundred billion dollars for
fiscal year 1978-1979 does not reflect total spending because of the
exclusion of special outlays which are not included in the budget
nor subject to the legal public debt limit; and


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November 04, 2016

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 (114" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of South Carolina, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1978, 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