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Article V Resolutions home

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


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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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