PRINTER'S NO. 3519
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
357
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY COX, BARBIN, BRIGGS, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN,
P. COSTA, CUTLER, M. DALEY, DEAN, DERMODY, ELLIS, EVERETT,
FRANKEL, GILLEN, GOODMAN, HANNA, HARKINS, KAMPF, KAUFER,
KILLION, LEWIS, MALONEY, MULLERY, MURT, ORTITAY, D. PARKER,
REGAN, SANKEY, SANTARSIERO, SAYLOR, SIMS, STURLA, TOBASH,
TOOHIL, VITALI, KRUEGER-BRANEKY, CONKLIN, SONNEY, DAVIS,
KOTIK, MICCARELLI, PETRARCA, YOUNGBLOOD, GAINEY AND
PASHINSKI, JUNE 15, 2016
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 15, 2016
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Calling for a Free and Fair Elections Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States via a Convention of the
States, pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the
United States, to authorize the states to apply disclosure
rules and reasonable guidelines on election campaign
contributions and expenditures.
WHEREAS, Our first President, George Washington, declared in
his 1796 farewell address: "The basis of our political systems
is the right of the people to make and to alter their
Constitutions of Government," and it was the clear intention of
the framers of the Constitution of the United States, as noted
by James Madison in Federalist No. 52, that the Congress of the
United States should be "dependent on the people alone"; and
WHEREAS, The articles of the Constitution of the United
States guarantee the right of the people to govern themselves,
the Bill of Rights contained in the first amendments to the
Constitution of the United States protect the inalienable rights
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