Title: Michigan Municipality Resolution Template

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Created: 2024-08-21 17:22:10

Updated: 2024-08-21 21:34:17

Published: 2024-08-20 15:00:00

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**Resolution No. %%__%%%%__%%%%__%%%%__%%%%__%%%%__%%**

A resolution from (Elk Rapids TOWNSHIP of Antrim COUNTY expressing support for the Convention of States to call an Article V Convention to propose amendment to the Constitution of the United States. To impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for federal officials and members of Congress.

WHEREAS, it is a fundamental precept of American government that the best governance is that which is closest, most accessible, and most accountable to the people; and

WHEREAS, it is for this reason that our Constitution strictly limits and defines the powers of the federal government, and explicitly reserves all remaining government functions to the states and the people; and

WHEREAS, in recent decades, the jurisdiction, authority, and resources of the state and local governments have been radically diminished by an ever-growing usurpation of jurisdiction and power by all three branches of the federal government, which has corresponded with an increasing confiscation of tax dollars that could otherwise remain in the states and localities; and

WHEREAS, the realities of human nature and institutional momentum make it a virtual certainty that federal officials will not individually, nor as institutions, ever undertake reforms that would halt or reverse the exponential growth of their own power, and

WHEREAS, unsurprisingly, the decisions, policies, laws, regulations, and actions of our federal officials and institutions in Washington, DC, are unresponsive to the unique needs and situations of individual states and localities, and

WHEREAS, neither state and local leaders nor individual citizens have any meaningful way to impact or influence the decision-making of the federal officials and institutions which are now dictating many of the policies that govern them, and

WHEREAS, it is the duty of state and local leaders to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Michigan Constitution, and to use their positions of public trust in the best interest of the people, and

WHEREAS, the needs and interests of the people of our state and local communities can only be adequately served through a restoration of the authority and resources originally reserved to the state and local levels of government, and

WHEREAS, because systematic overreaching by all three branches of the federal government has gone unchecked at the federal level and resulted in de facto revisions of our Constitution to expand federal power and jurisdiction, the only proper, effective recourse is through the proposal and ratification of constitutional amendments that reject the perversions of constitutional language, reinstate the needed limitations on federal power and jurisdiction, and restore the authority of the state and local governments which are most responsive to the people, and

WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution provides for the proposal of constitutional amendments on specific topics through a convention of the states, at which each state has one vote, and for the subsequent ratification, of such amendments as are approved by the majority of states, by three-fourths (38) of the states;

NOW THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the Elk Rapids Township Board of Trustees%%__%%%%__%%%%__%%%%__%% %%__%%%%__%%%%__%%, fulfilling its duty to serve the best interests of its constituents, hereby calls upon the Senate and Assembly of the Michigan State Legislature, especially State Senator First & Last Name and State Representative First & Last Name, the elected representatives of those constituents, to advance and adopt with all possible speed, this as a concurrent legislative resolution:

Application for a Convention of the States under

Article V of the Constitution of the United States

Whereas, the Founders of our Constitution empowered State Legislators to be guardians

of liberty against future abuses of power by the federal government, and

Whereas, the federal government has created a crushing national debt through improper

and imprudent spending, and

Whereas, the federal government has invaded the legitimate roles of the states through

the manipulative process of federal mandates, most of which are unfunded to a great

extent, and

Whereas, the federal government has ceased to live under a proper interpretation of the

Constitution of the United States, and

Whereas, it is the solemn duty of the States to protect the liberty of our people—

particularly for the generations to come—by proposing Amendments to the

Constitution of the United States through a Convention of the States under Article V for

the purpose of restraining these and related abuses of power,

Be it therefore resolved by the legislature of the State of %%__%%%%__%%%%__%%:

Section 1. The legislature of the State of %%__%%%%__%%%%__%% hereby applies to Congress, under the

provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a

convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the

United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power

and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials

and for members of Congress.

Section 2. The secretary of state is hereby directed to transmit copies of this application

to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate and to the Speaker and Clerk

of the United States House of Representatives, and copies to the members of the said

Senate and House of Representatives from this State; also to transmit copies hereof to

the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several States, requesting

their cooperation.

Section 3. This application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with

Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least

two-thirds of the several states have made applications on the same subject.