CONVENTION CALLS
State Legislatures that have made Calls on the United
States Congress directing Congress to convene a Single Issue Amendment
Convention:
1) Balanced Budget Amendment Convention
Since the
economic downturn in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, 32 States
made legislative calls for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New, Hampshire, New Mexico, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming
None of the 32
Calling States entered into an Interstate Agreement or Delegate
Resolution to define the terms, conditions and agenda at the
Convention. (Go to: Article V Analysis)
If two more States complete a Call on Congress, we would have an undefined
Convention controlled by the delegates, not the Calling State Legislatures.
As many as 18 States have since rescinded their Calls, but there is nothing in
the Constitution authorizing the States the option of rescission. Congress
could ignore the rescissions and convene the Convention for political reasons.
WE MUST STOP THIS PORTENDING CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. It is imperative that
the Balanced Budget Amendment Committee secure the "Delegate
Resolutions" from at least 26 Calling States before the last two States
make Calls. We need your help. We
need State Directors, Regional Directors, Legislative Directors, Coordinators,
Contributors and telephone callers.
Deuteronomy 28: 1,2 "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the Lord thy God, . . . all these blessings shall come on
thee, . . . and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto
many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. And the Lord shall make thee the
head, and not the tail. . ."
New Hampshire Becomes the 18th
State to Call for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
Today's Date -- May 16, 2012
New Hampshire Becomes the 18th
State to Call for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
New Smyrna
Beach, FL, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the New Hampshire
Senate completed the process started by the House and passed HCR 40 making New
Hampshire the 18th of 34 states needed to call an amendment convention to solely
consider a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This event marks
a resurgence of the federalism our founders intended as the states use their
constitutional powers granted in Article V of the U.S. Constitution to reign in
out of control federal spending that is leading our nation into an economic
abyss.
Representative Ulery (District 27), the House Sponsor, stated, “a Balanced
Budget Amendment (BBA) will force Congress to do what they seem incapable of
doing, that is reduce spending and tell the American people the truth about the
cost of our nation’s unfunded entitlement promises.”
"The
American people can prosper for generations if the states propose and ratify a
Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) that stops the trillion-a-year deficits and pays
back the $15 trillion in debt. Fortunately our founders gave the states in
Article V of our Constitution a powerful mechanism to restrain the federal
government if it should abuse or exceed its limited delegated authority. Over
70% (CNN Poll) of Americans want a BBA and 38 states have the power to draft and
approve one," said BBA Task Force Co-founder David Biddulph.
New
Hampshire legislators have taken an innovative approach to answering the
concerns of some that a convention to solely consider a Balanced Budget
Amendment could propose an unrelated amendment. State Senator Fenton Groen
(District 6) sponsored and the Senate approved (SB 356), which, has been amended
in the House to limit the authority of New Hampshire delegates to an Article V
amendment convention to only consider the subject matter contained in the
state’s resolution. The passage of this legislation will make New Hampshire the
first state in the nation to criminalize and recall “faithless” delegates to an
amendment convention.
Scott
Rogers, Executive Director of the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force noted,
“Every delegate from New Hampshire to a U.S. constitutional amendment (drafting)
convention shall be required to take an oath to only vote on the amendment
subject approved by the legislature. Any vote taken by a delegate at the
convention in violation of their oath will be null and void. Any delegate making
this vote shall be immediately recalled, replaced and face criminal charges from
the State of New Hampshire.”
The
Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
whose mission is to educate state legislators on their Constitutional power to
propose and ratify a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that
aims to quadruple family income and pay off the nation’s debt within four
generations.
AMENDMENT VIDEOS:
July 31, 2012 --
Balanced Budget Amendment
August 10, 2012 --
Constitutional Heritage Amendment
July 10, 2012 --
Energy Amendment
January 23, 1973 -- Unborn Child
Amendment
February 10, 2001 --
Reclaiming America Single Issue
Amendments
November 30, 2012 -- American
Sovereignty Amendment
November 30, 2012 -- Legal Immigration
Amendment
December 16, 2012 --
Free
Markets Amendment
December 16, 2012 --
Property
Rights Amendment
December 16, 2012 --
Parental Rights Amendment
December 16, 2012 --
Health
Care Choice Amendment
