PRINTER'S NO. 1415
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
254
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, BROWNE, LEACH, FONTANA, BREWSTER, BOSCOLA,
YUDICHAK, HAYWOOD, MENSCH, RAFFERTY, TARTAGLIONE, HUGHES,
BLAKE, SABATINA, FARNESE, SCHWANK, STREET, McGARRIGLE,
DINNIMAN, MARTIN, WHITE, WILLIAMS, ARGALL, McILHINNEY,
KILLION, WAGNER, VOGEL AND TOMLINSON, JANUARY 19, 2018
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 19, 2018
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, which would 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 protects the inalienable
rights of the people, and the Declaration of Independence states
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