00                      SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 19                                                                    
01 Requesting the United States Congress to call a convention of the states to propose an                                  
02 amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms                                
03 that a person may be elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives                                  
04 and as a member of the United States Senate; and urging the legislatures of the other 49                                
05 states to request the United States Congress to call a convention of the states.                                        
06 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
07       WHEREAS the drafters of the Constitution of the United States empowered state                                   
08 legislators to be guardians of liberty against future abuses of power by the federal                                    
09 government; and                                                                                                         
10       WHEREAS most Americans now understand that unlimited terms for elected                                          
11 representatives to the United States Congress leads to abuses of federal power and no longer                            
12 reflects a democratic process or guarantees a democratic republic; and                                                  
13       WHEREAS it is the solemn duty of the states to protect the liberty of the people,                               
14 particularly for the generations to come, by proposing amendments to the Constitution of the                            
15 United States through a convention of the states under art. V to place clear restraints on these                        

01 and related abuses of power;                                                                                            
02       BE IT RESOLVED that, under art. V, Constitution of the United States, the Alaska                                
03 State Legislature respectfully applies to the United States Congress to call a convention of the                        
04 states for the limited purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United                              
05 States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a member of the                            
06 United States House of Representatives and to set a limit on the number of terms that a person                          
07 may be elected as a member of the United States Senate; and be it                                                       
08       FURTHER RESOLVED that this application shall be considered as covering the                                      
09 same subject matter as the applications from other states to the United States Congress to call                         
10 a convention of the states to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected to                        
11 the United States House of Representatives and to the United States Senate; this application                            
12 shall be aggregated with applications with the same subject matter as the applications from                             
13 other states for the purpose of reaching the two-thirds of states necessary to require the United                       
14 States Congress to call a limited convention on this subject, but may not be aggregated with                            
15 any other applications on any other subject; and be it                                                                  
16       FURTHER RESOLVED that this application constitutes a continuing application in                                  
17 accordance with art. V, Constitution of the United States, until at least two-thirds of the                             
18 legislatures of the several states have applied for a similar convention of the states; and be it                       
19       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the legislatures of                                    
20 the other 49 states to apply to the United States Congress to call a convention of the states.                          
21       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of                             
22 the United States; the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice President of the United States and                          
23 President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of                                  
24 Representatives; the Honorable Orrin Hatch, President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate; the                               
25 Honorable Julie E. Adams, Secretary of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Karen L. Haas, Clerk                              
26 of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Lisa Murkowski and the Honorable Dan                                
27 Sullivan, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the                               
28 Alaska delegation in Congress; and the presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the                            
29 other 49 states.