00 CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 4(STA)                                                                               
01 Relating to an amendment to the Constitution of the United States setting out the                                       
02 authority of the United States Congress, of state legislatures, and of local                                            
03 governments to enact laws relating to limits on election campaign expenditures.                                         
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05  WHEREAS, under Article V of the Constitution of the United States, amendments to                                       
06 the Constitution of the United States may be proposed by the Congress of the United States                              
07 or, upon the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states, the Congress shall call                       
08 a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing amendments;                                                    
09  BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the Congress of the United                                         
10 States is requested to propose and submit to the states an amendment to the Constitution of                             
11 the United States that reads substantially as follows:                                                                  
12 ARTICLE --                                                                                                             
13  Section 1.  Congress shall have power to set reasonable limits on                                                     
14 expenditures made in support of or in opposition to the nomination or election                                          
01 of any person to Federal office.                                                                                        
02  Section 2.  Each State shall have power to set reasonable limits on                                                   
03 expenditures made in support of or in opposition to the nomination or election                                          
04 of any person to State office.                                                                                          
05  Section 3.  Each local government of general jurisdiction shall have                                                  
06 power to set reasonable limits on expenditures made in support of or in                                                 
07 opposition to the nomination or election of any person to office in that                                                
08 government.  No State shall have power to limit the power established by this                                           
09 section.                                                                                                                
10  Section 4.  Congress shall have power to implement and enforce this                                                   
11 article by appropriate legislation.                                                                                     
12 and be it                                                                                                               
13  FURTHER RESOLVED that, alternatively, the Alaska State Legislature makes                                               
14 application and requests that the Congress of the United States call a convention for the sole                          
15 and exclusive purpose of proposing substantially the same amendment to the Constitution of                              
16 the United States; and be it                                                                                            
17  FURTHER RESOLVED that if the Congress proposes such an amendment to the                                                
18 Constitution of the United States, this application and request for a constitutional convention                         
19 shall no longer be of any force or effect; and be it                                                                    
20  FURTHER RESOLVED that this application and request shall not be of any force                                           
21 or effect if the convention is not limited to the exclusive purpose specified by this resolution.                       
22  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                                
23 United States; to Sheila P. Burke, the Secretary of the U.S. Senate; to Robin Hewlett Carle,                            
24 the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives; and to the Honorable Ted Stevens and the                                
25 Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S.                                             
26 Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.