PRINTER'S NO. 1012
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
357
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY COX, BIZZARRO, BRIGGS, CUTLER, DEAN, DONATUCCI,
FABRIZIO, FRANKEL, GILLEN, GOODMAN, HANNA, J. HARRIS, IRVIN,
KAUFER, NEILSON, PASHINSKI, C. QUINN, RABB, RADER, SONNEY,
VITALI AND WHEELAND, MARCH 20, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 20, 2017
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Calling for a Free and Fair Elections Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States via a Convention of 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
of the people, and the Declaration of Independence states that
"to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
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