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1		HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2		WHEREAS, Executive Orders by the President of the United
3		States have become a vehicle through which the President may
4		overstep the limits of his constitutional authority; and
5		WHEREAS, The concentration of power at the federal level
6		has had the effect of making federal officials less responsive
7		to the will of the people and more readily influenced by
8		lobbyists, wealthy corporations, and special interests in
9		Washington, D.C.; and
10		WHEREAS, Much of federal law is now enacted by federal
11		bureaucrats who were never chosen by the people and have no
12		accountability to the people whatsoever; and
13		WHEREAS, Policy decisions made at the state level tend to
14		be more responsive to the needs and desires of the people; and
15		WHEREAS, The federal government has created a crushing
16		national debt through improper and imprudent spending; and
17		WHEREAS, The federal government has invaded the legitimate
18		roles of the states through the manipulative process of
19		federal mandates, most of which are unfunded to a great
20		extent; and

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1		WHEREAS, The states have the ability to restore the
2		responsiveness of government to the people and to restrain
3		abuses of federal power by proposing amendments to the
4		Constitution of the United States through a limited Convention
5		of the States under Article V; therefore, be it
6		RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
7		HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
8		SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the legislature of the State of
9		Illinois hereby applies to Congress, under the provisions of
10		Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the
11		calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing
12		amendments to the Constitution of the United States that
13		impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the
14		power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit
15		the terms of office for its officials and for members of
16		Congress; and be it further
17		RESOLVED, That the Illinois Secretary of State is hereby
18		directed to transmit copies of this application to the
19		President and Secretary of the United States Senate, to the
20		Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of
21		Representatives, to the Illinois Congressional Delegation, and
22		to the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in
23		the United States, requesting their cooperation; and be it

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1		further
2		RESOLVED, That this application constitutes a continuing
3		application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution
4		of the United States until the legislatures of at least
5		two-thirds of the states have made applications on the same
6		subject.