Bill Text: AZ SCM1008 | 2014 | Fifty-first Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitutional amendment; U.S. senators; repeal
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-06 - Referred to Senate GE Committee [SCM1008 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2014-SCM1008-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: constitutional amendment; U.S. senators; repeal |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014
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SCM 1008 |
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Introduced by Senators Farnsworth D, Burges, Crandell, Murphy; Representatives Allen, Gowan, Livingston, Mitchell: Senators Barto, Melvin, Shooter, Ward, Yarbrough
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A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL
urging the United States congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the requirement for direct election of United States senators.
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To the Congress of the United States of America:
Your memorialist respectfully represents:
Whereas, the people of the State of Arizona view with growing concern the ongoing failure of political will exhibited by the members of the United States Senate with respect to federal issues that are of grave concern to the people of this state; and
Whereas, this lack of responsiveness by the members of the United States Senate to the needs of the states is attributable to the skewing of the legislative checks and balances system originally established by the founders of this country in the United States Constitution as originally adopted; and
Whereas, the people of this state firmly believe that a return to the original structure of the United States Congress is required and that this nation is best served by returning to the prior constitutional system that provided for each state's legislature to elect that state's United States senators.
Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring, prays:
1. That, pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States, the United States Congress propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to be ratified by the legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the several states, as follows:
Amendment XVII, Constitution of the United States, relating to the election of United States senators from the several states, is repealed.
2. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.
