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Title: Article V Resolutions home

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Created: 2023-12-15 13:01:19

Updated: 2024-12-05 17:54:04

Published: 2023-12-22 00:00:00

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Select a state to see Article V Resolutions passed.

Fast Facts:

All 50 states have passed an Article V Resolution calling for an amendment proposing convention since the U.S. Constitution was adapted.
Over 500 Article V Resolutions have been passed in America's history.
Passed resolutions are submitted to the clerk as Applications for an Article V convention.
Over 200 Applications are Open (meaning they can aggregate to call an Article V convention)
Article V of the Constitution requires that 2/3 of the state legislatures (34 states) call for a convention before a convention takes place.
As of yet, no convention topic has been called for by 34 states.

Open Article V Application Topics (As of December 2023)

Anti-Communism Amendment (1 Application: MS)
Anti-Polygamy (8 Applications: MI, MN, NE, OH, VT, WA, WI)
Apportionment (13 Applications: AL, AR, FL, IA, IN, KS, KY, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, WA)
Attendance at Public Schools (4 Applications: KY, MA, MI, MS)
Balanced Budget (18 Applications: AK, AL, AR-2, AZ, CO, FL, IA, IN, KS, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, OK, PA, WA)
Balanced Federal Budget (15 Applications: AL, FL, GA, LA, MI, ND, NE, NH, OH, SD, TN, UT, WI, WV, WY)
Constitutionality of 14th Amendment (1 Application: AR)
Countermand Amendment (1 Application: AK)
Court of the Union (2 Applications: AL, FL)
Direct Election of President and Vice President (1 Application: WI)
Direct Election of Senators (17 Applications: AR, CA, CO, IA-2, IN, KS, KY, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, WA, WI)
Election of Presidential Electors (1 Application: IN)
Federal Regulation of Labor Hours and Wages (1 Application: CA)
Financial Aid to Private Schools (2 Applications: MA)
COS Resolution: Fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limiting the terms of office of federal officials, including members of Congress (19 Applications: AK, AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IN, LA, MO, MS, ND, NE, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WI, WV)
Flag Desecration (1 Application: MO)
General Call for an Article V Convention (13 Applications: AL, AR, CO, IA, IN, KS, MI, MO, NE, RI, WA, WI)
Increase in federal debt to require approval by majority of state legislatures (2 Applications: LA, ND)
Legislation in Congress to contain only one subject and that one subject must be clearly expressed in the measure's title (1 Application: FL)
Limited Federal Taxation (7 Applications: AR, CO, KY, MA, ME, MO, NE)
Limited Treaty Making Power (1 Application: IN)
Limited World Federal Government (4 Applications: CA, CT, FL, NC)
Manner of Determining Constitutionality of State Enactments (1 Application: MO)
Mode of Amendment (4 Applications: FL, IN, MI, MO)
Mode of Amendment, Other (1 Application: ND)
Motor Vehicle Taxes Directed to States (1 Application: CA)
Nullification (1 Application: AL)
Overturn 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (4 Applications: CA, HI, RI, VT)
Pensions for Citizens (1 Application: MA)
Posse Comitatus (1 Application: LA)
Presidential Electors (5 Applications: AR, CO, FL, NE, WI)
Presiding Officer of Senate (1 Application: FL)
Prohibition on Taxation of State or Municipal Bonds (1 Application: HI)
Reading of Bible in School (1 Application: MA)
Reducing Effects of Emancipation (1 Application: NC)
Refund of Federal Taxes to States (1 Application: OH)
Regulation of Firearms; Raising Age to 21 (1 Application: CA)
Repeal of 16th Amendment (14 Applications: AK, AL, CA, FL, IA, IN. KS, KY, MA, ME, MI, PA, RI, WI)
Repeal of 16th Amendment, Limited Federal Taxation (3 Applications: IA, MI, NE)
Repeal of 18th Amendment (3 Applications: MA, WI)
Repeal of Prohibition (1 Application: MA)
Revenue Sharing (6 Applications: AL, FL, IA, MA, OH, WV)
Right to Life (11 Applications: AL, AR, IN, KY, MA, MO, MS, ND, NE PA, RI)
School Prayer (1 Application: MS)
Secular School Funding (1 Application: MA)
Senate as Appellate Court for Supreme Court Rulings (1 Application: FL)
Slavery (4 Applications: AR, IN, KY, OH)
State Legislative Review of Supreme Court Rulings (1 Application: AR)
Taxation of Government Securities (1 Application: CA)
Taxation of Income of Resident of One State by Another State (1 Application: CT)
Term Limits on Members of Congress (6 Applications: AL, FL, MO, OK, WI, WV, TN)
Term-Limits; Judicial (1 Application: AL)
Term-Limits; Judicial and Selection of Federal Judges (1 Application: AL)
Term-Limits; Presidential (3 Applications: IA, MI, WI)
Unconditional Federal Funds (4 Applications: CO, FL, MO, PA)
Unfunded Federal Mandates (2 Applications: MO, ND)
Validity of State Statutes Not Expressly Declared Invalid in Federal Law (1 Application: AL)

Source Material:

- Congressional Records
- Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Wikipedia
- Friends of Article V