Senate
Joint Resolution No. 1
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State
of New Jersey
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| JOINT
RESOLUTION providing for application by the Legislature of the
State of New Jersey to the Congress of the United States to
call a convention for proposing an amendment to said Constitution
for the repeal of Article XVIII (Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition
of the Liquor Traffic) and the substitution of a new amendment
therefor, as provided by Article V of the said Constitution
of the United States. |
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| WHEREAS,
Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides: |
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| “The
Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary,
shall propose amendments to this Constitution; or, on the application
of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall
call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either
case shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of
this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths
of the several States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof,
as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the Congress; etc.” |
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IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State
of New Jersey: |
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1.
That under the authority of Article V of the Constitution of
the United States, application is hereby made by the Legislature
of the State of New Jersey to the Congress of the United States
to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing
an amendment to the said Constitution of the United States providing
for the repeal of Article XVIII (Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition
of the Liquor Traffic) of the said Constitution and the substitution
for it of an amendment which will restore to the States the
power to determine their policy toward the liquor traffic, [pg.
1]
and
to vest in the Federal Government the power to give all possible
protection and assistance to every State which desires to exclude
intoxicating liquor from its territory; which amendment shall
be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said
Constitution of the United States, when ratified by the several
states. |
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| 2.
That the Legislature of the State of New Jersey recommends to
the Congress of the United States that the mode of ratification
of any such amendment, to be proposed by said Congress to the
several states, shall be the one by convention, instead of by
the Legislatures, in three-fourths of said several states, as
provided in said Article V of said Constitution of the United
States. |
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| 3.
That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby directed to
forward a properly authenticated copy of this resolution to
the President of the United States, to the Vice President of
the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States representing the State of New Jersey. |
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4.
This Joint Resolution shall take effect immediately. [pg.
2]
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Senate Joint Resolution No. 1
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| SENATE, |
| January
12, 1932 |
| This
bill having been three times read in the Senate, |
| RESOLVED,
that the same do pass. |
| By
order of the Senate. |
| A.
Crozer Reeves, President of the Senate |
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| HOUSE
OF ASSEMBLY, |
| January
25, 1932 |
| This
bill having been three times read and compared in the House
of Assembly, |
| RESOLVED,
that the same do pass. |
| By
order of the House of Assembly. |
| Joseph
Greenberg, Speaker of the House of Assembly [pg. 3] |
