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Sample Testimony from Montana #15

Written Testimony graciously provided by the COS Montana Team

Attachment: 4719/COS_Testimony_2025_The_Kinds_of_Isusses_That_An_Amendments_Convention_Could_Consider.pdf

 





Mr. Chairman,

We are often asked what we expect to happen at an amendments proposing convention of states. 
Convention of States Action, the organization that is supporting the application you are 
reviewing today, held a mock amendments convention nearly two years ago in Texas.

Delegates from 49 states gathered in person. The Convention was strictly bound by the subject 
matter in the application before you.

After spirited debate, limited by the short duration of the mock format, the convention proposed 
the following amendments:

1. Term Limits for Congress

2. An amendment that specified the US Supreme Court is comprised of nine justices and 

that allowed any of the several states to bring an action challenging the Constitutionality 
of any action of the Executive Branch or Congress before the Supreme Court.

3. A fiscal restraint amendment that specified deadlines for the federal budget and required 

a two thirds majority to exceed spending limits and to raise taxes

4. An amendment that provides a strict definition of what commerce is under the Commerce

clause and restrictions on Congress’s ability to offload rule making on to the Executive 
Branch.

5. Give state legislatures the ability to abrogate federal laws and regulations if a majority of 

the states vote to do so.

6. An amendment  limiting the federal government’s ownership and control of land

This was a mock convention. These are not amendments that are being proposed today. They are 
merely symbolic of what is possible from this process. I would be happy to provide a full copy of
the mock amendments to this committee for the record.

What the mock convention shows is that our application would allow a great opportunity for the 
states to engage in a robust conversation about reigning in federal power. Delegates would most 
certainly need to consider the ability of any amendments to clear 38 state threshold required for 
ratification. This is the beauty of our Constitutional design. However, these types of ideas 
coming from an amendments convention would certainly be the catalyst for a long overdue 
debate on critical issues among We The People. We are not getting this opportunity from 
Congress. They have no interest in these issues.

Please give us the opportunity to have the states and the People use the Constitution to save the 
Constitution. Support [bill name here]

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