To view this on the COS website, click here [[https://conventionofstates.com/files/2016-louisiana-house-resolution|2016-louisiana-house-resolution]]

To download the pdf file from the COS website, click here [[https://conventionofstates.com/files/2016-louisiana-house-resolution/download|2016_Louisiana_House_Resolution.pdf]]


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====== 2016 Louisiana House Resolution ======


Attachment: 3424/2016_Louisiana_House_Resolution.pdf
| \\ \\ \\ \\ {{:public:cb_mirror:files_18833_pdfto001.png?nolink&918x1512|}}\\ \\ 2016 Regular Session\\ \\ **ENROLLED**\\ \\ SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 52\\ \\ BY SENATORS CLAITOR, CORTEZ, FANNIN, HEWITT, LONG, MILLS, MIZELL,\\ \\ MORRISH, PEACOCK, PERRY, RISER AND WALSWORTH AND\\ REPRESENTATIVE GAROFALO \\ \\ A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION\\ \\ To  memorialize  the  United  States  Congress  to  call  a  constitutional  convention  for  the\\ \\ purpose of proposing amendments to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal\\ \\ government, impose fiscal restraints upon its activities, and limit the terms of office\\ \\ that may be served by its officials and by members of Congress.\\ \\ WHEREAS,  the  powers  of  the  federal  government  are  limited  to  those  powers\\ \\ enumerated in the United States Constitution; and\\ \\ WHEREAS,  as  set  forth  in  provisions  such  as  the  Second,  Fourth,  and  Fifth\\ \\ Amendments of the Bill of Rights concerning individual freedom and protections, and the\\ \\ Tenth and Eleventh Amendments concerning the powers of the states, the U.S. Constitution\\ \\ was intended to include and specifically provide constraints upon the powers of the federal\\ \\ government and to further provide for the sovereign powers of the states; and\\ \\ WHEREAS, despite such provisions a continuing crisis has been created by the rise\\ \\ and growth of unchecked power in all branches of the federal government; and\\ \\ WHEREAS, such unchecked power, and the national debt created by its exercise,\\ \\ adversely affects every state and every citizen of our nation now and into the foreseeable\\ \\ future; and\\ \\ WHEREAS, such continuing crisis can be resolved only through amendment to the\\ \\ United  States  Constitution,  in  order  to  clarify  the  powers,  duties,  and  limitations  of  the\\ \\ federal government and to clearly delineate the sovereign powers of the states that cannot\\ \\ be abridged by the unrestrained exercise of federal powers.\\ \\ THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby\\ \\ memorialize and apply to the United States Congress for the calling of a convention of the\\ \\ states  limited  to  proposing  amendments  to  the  U.S.  Constitution  to  limit  the  power  and\\ \\ jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints upon its activities, and limit\\ \\ the terms of office that may be served by its officials and by members of Congress.\\ \\ Page 1 of 2\\ \\ \\ \\ {{:public:cb_mirror:files_18833_pdfto002.png?nolink&918x1512|}}\\ \\ **SCR NO. 52**\\ \\ **ENROLLED**\\ \\ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the\\ \\ President  of  the  United  States  Senate,  to  the  Speaker  of  the  United  States  House  of\\ \\ Representatives,  to  each  member  of  the  Louisiana  congressional  delegation,  and  to  the\\ \\ presiding officers of each of the legislative  houses in  the several states, requesting their\\ \\ cooperation.\\ \\ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution shall constitute a continuing\\ \\ application  in  accordance  with  Article  V  of  the  United  States  Constitution  until  the\\ \\ legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states have made application for a similar\\ \\ convention pursuant to Article V.\\ \\ PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE\\ \\ SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\\ \\ Page 2 of 2|


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