Bill Text: CA AJR32 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Federal constitutional convention: application.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-29 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AJR32 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AJR32-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AJR 32	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Allen, Gatto, and Wieckowski

                        MARCH 20, 2012

   Relative to a federal constitutional convention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 32, as introduced, Allen. Federal constitutional convention:
application.
   This measure would constitute an application to the United States
Congress to call a constitutional convention pursuant to Article V of
the United States Constitution for the sole purpose of proposing an
amendment to the United States Constitution that would limit
corporate personhood for purposes of campaign finance and political
speech and would further declare that money does not constitute
speech and may be democratically limited.
   This measure would state that it constitutes a continuing
application to call a constitutional convention until at least 2/3 of
the state legislatures apply to the United States Congress to call a
constitutional convention for that sole purpose.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission (2010) 130 S.Ct. 876 held that the
government may not, under the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution, suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker's
corporate identity; and
   WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution requires the
United States Congress to call a constitutional convention upon
application of two-thirds of the legislatures of the several states
for the purpose of proposing amendments to the United States
Constitution; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California
hereby applies to the United States Congress to call a constitutional
convention pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution
for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States
Constitution that would limit corporate personhood for purposes of
campaign finance and political speech and would further declare that
money does not constitute speech and may be democratically limited;
and be it further
   Resolved, That this constitutes a continuing application to call a
constitutional convention pursuant to Article V of the United States
Constitution until at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the
several states apply to the United States Congress to call a
constitutional convention for the sole purpose of proposing an
amendment to the United States Constitution that would limit
corporate personhood for purposes of campaign finance and political
speech and would further declare that money does not constitute
speech and may be democratically limited; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority
Leader of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the
United States Senate, the Minority Leader of the United States
Senate, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the
Congress of the United States.