1 | House Memorial |
2 | A memorial to the Congress of the United States, |
3 | petitioning that a convention be called pursuant to |
4 | Article V of the United States Constitution to consider |
5 | amending the United States Constitution to limit the terms |
6 | of members of the Congress of the United States to twelve |
7 | years; providing that the purview of such convention be |
8 | limited strictly to the consideration of this amendment; |
9 | providing that this application to the Congress be a |
10 | continuing application until the convention herein applied |
11 | for is convened. |
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13 | Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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15 | That pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the |
16 | United States, the Legislature of the State of Florida does |
17 | hereby apply to the Congress of the United States for a |
18 | convention to consider the following amendment to the United |
19 | States Constitution: |
20 | Section 1. No person may appear on the ballot for re- |
21 | election to the office of Representative or Senator who, by the |
22 | end of the current term of office will have served or, but for |
23 | resignation, would have served, in that office for twelve |
24 | consecutive years. |
25 | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the purview of any convention |
26 | called by the Congress pursuant to this memorial be strictly |
27 | limited to the consideration of an amendment of the nature as |
28 | herein proposed. |
29 | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application by the |
30 | Legislature of the State of Florida constitutes a continuing |
31 | application pursuant to Article V of the United States |
32 | Constitution, until such time as two-thirds of the Legislatures |
33 | of the several states have made similar applications and the |
34 | convention herein applied for is convened. |
35 | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be |
36 | dispatched to the President of the United States, to the |
37 | President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the |
38 | United States House of Representatives, to each member of the |
39 | Florida delegation to the United States Congress, and to the |
40 | presiding officer of each house of each state legislature in the |
41 | United States. |