Rescinds House Concurrent Resolution No. 40, adopted in 2012, which applied to Congress to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.
rescinding House Concurrent Resolution No. 40 passed by the 2012 New Hampshire General Court asking that Congress call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.
Please support this bill. Convention of States is an uncertain and dangerous scenario. The federal government doesn't follow constitutional now. What sense does it make to open it up and start amending it? Who will be the delegates? How are they vetted? Who exactly selects them? If you cannot answer all those questions with absolute certainty, you cannot support an Article V Convention. Please vote in support of this rescission.
I am a Selectman in Albany. Please oppose this legislation.
I support this bill and want to extend my gratitude to the sponsors. A constitution of states would be a bad idea in the best of times, and these are NOT the best of times for our democracy. I am worried enough about this to ask that someone look into the legality of amending the NH constitution to prohibit our legislature from requesting a constitution of states. At least until Article V is revised to protect American citizens from traitors seeking to erode our Constitutional rights.
Since 2000: Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, and New York have all rescinded their applications and currently do not have one in according to the Convention of States website. After hitting a milestone of 32 of 34 states needed in 2017, states began dropping out. Those above, but also immediately following hitting 32 states, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota and Michigan also rescinded their applications. Today, COS has 19 states on board. Clearly, the other states are aware what a risk it would be to hold a convention, and NH should follow suit. We should in fact, become a leader of RESTORING the Constitution and promoting civic education and engagement. Many states are stepping up and fighting the federal government on their overreach - we do not need a convention for that. We must simply act! Please SUPPORT HCR5!
https://rumble.com/v3kqha4-the-harsh-reality-of-a-convention-of-states.html Please support HCR5 and instead focus on removing unconstitutional spending which accounts for 80% of the budget. No convention needed.
This is not the time nor political atmosphere to attempt meaningful change to our constitution
January 31, 2025 From: Hal Shurtleff To: New Hampshire House State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs Committee RE: HCR 5 A Resolution to Rescind New Hampshire’s Application for an Article V Convention Ladies and Gentlemen of the Committee: My name is Harold (Hal) Shurtleff. I am a resident of Alton NH, a U.S. Army Veteran and the co-founder and director of Camp Constitution I urge you to vote in favor of HCR 5 HCR 5 will rescind New Hampshire’s only for an Article V Convention for the specific purpose of passing a balanced budget amendment with “with certain exceptions.” Even if a convention can be limited to this amendment, it is a bad idea. The resolution doesn’t specify what those “certain exceptions” but all of the proposed balanced budget amendments list war and a national emergency as the exceptions. The United States currently has at least 42 state of emergencies-one going back to the Carter Administration. So, any balanced budget amendment that has this exception wil
We must not risk making changes to our constitution until we have politics leaders on both sides of the aisle that will actually enforce the current version fairly. Opening a convention puts all of our current freedoms and rights at risk. Thank you.
As a tax paying citizen of this state and country, I appose this bill and expect my representatives to align with their constituents.
We've seen how the Trump administration is making massive changes with no thought of consequences. In this atmosphere, the same would happen to our Constitution. Please support rescinding the move towards a Constitutional Convention.
To whom it may concern, the only thing we as American Citizens need to do is to follow State and Federal Constitutions not change them by an article V convention. Thank you.
I recommend voting against a Constitutional Convention. Given the present highly polarized state of our democracy at this point, I think a Constitutional Convention could just be a very difficult set of arguments and possibly even lead to violence. Leave the decision of 2012 alone and vote against this Resolution.
NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS
I am for HCR5. The text of Article V of the Constitution regarding a constitutional convention is too vague to risk the degradation and perhaps complete overturning of the protections provided to the citizens under the existing Constitution, as amended. Amongst the reasons for supporting HCR5: • How would the convention delegates be chosen? • Congress can choose to either allow ¾ of state legislatures or ¾ of conventions of those states to ratify changes. This means that Congress has the option to prevent the elected state legislatures from deciding on whether to ratify the changes proposed by the national constitutional convention • The convention could completely rewrite the Constitution • Too many elected officials in state and federal governments have already shown disdain and contempt for the Constitution and many have openly supported the replacement of our liberal democracy with a dictatorship.
Rescinding prior NH application to the US Congress does not end the matter. At the prior convention, congress counted the rescinded applications toward the two thirds of the State legislatures (that is, 34 of the 50). Some claim that rescission is impossible often also argue that different topics can be combined during a convention's deliberations.
I will provide written testimony at the hearing. Please ITL HCR5. This committee and this legislature should adopt a posture in firm support of THE bedrock of federalism, equal state power to propose amendments, as guaranteed in Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Our over $36 trillion national debt -- increasing by a staggering $2 trillion annually with debt service in excess of $1 trillion annually -- is an existential threat to the nation’s future prosperity, social harmony, and national security. The federal government has yet to produce a credible solution to restore fiscal sanity and sustainability. Since the 1980s, Congress has repeatedly ignored its own statutory fiscal rules and has never passed a constitutional amendment to self-limit its reckless addiction to spending and debt. Fortunately, our Constitution’s framers anticipated that Congress could one day become corrupted by the perquisites of power, granting to the sovereign states equal power under Article V to propose amendments. As of 1983 forty states (including New Hampshire), greater than the two-thirds (34) of states required, had submitted applications mandating that Congress call a convention for proposing a fiscal responsibility amendment. Adopting HCR5 and thereby rescinding New Hampshire’s valid 2012 fiscal responsibility application is an endorsement of continuing Congressional inaction and an endorsement of doing nothing to address the looming national debt crisis. There is no other viable political solution. I trust you members of this legislature more than I do members of Congress. Please have trust in yourselves to responsibly exercise your equal power to propose a fiscal responsibility amendment.
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