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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                      HOUSE CONCURRENT
                       RESOLUTION NO. 61
                              102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                           INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHWADRON.
    5590H.01I                                                         DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk


                                              AN ACT
    Relating to an application to Congress for the calling of an Article V convention of states to
           repeal the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.


    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United States requires a convention
 2 to be called by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of proposing an amendment
 3 to the Constitution upon application of two-thirds of the Legislatures of the several states; and
 4
 5          WHEREAS, the Founders of the United States of America who designed our
 6 Constitution sought to balance and limit the power of the federal government against the
 7 states, the federal income tax undermines the Constitution's arrangements for balancing and
 8 limiting the federal government; and
 9
10          WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Missouri favors a proposal and
11 ratification of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which shall repeal the Sixteenth
12 Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and declare that Congress
13 shall have no power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived,
14 except in time of war declared by the Congress:
15
16          NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of
17 Representatives of the One Hundred Second General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the
18 Senate concurring therein, hereby make an application to Congress, as provided by Article V
19 of the Constitution of the United States of America, to call a convention limited to proposing
20 an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to repeal the Sixteenth
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21   Amendment and remove the power of the federal government to lay and collect taxes on
22   incomes; and
23
24          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application shall be considered as covering
25   the same subject matter as the applications from other states to Congress to call a convention
26   to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and remove the power of the federal government to lay
27   and collect taxes on incomes; and this application shall be aggregated with the same for the
28   purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to call a limited
29   convention on this subject but shall not be aggregated with any other applications on any
30   other subject; and
31
32          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of
33   Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the
34   President and Secretary of the United States Senate; the Speaker, Clerk, and Judiciary
35   Committee Chairman of the United States House of Representatives; each member of the
36   Missouri Congressional Delegation; and the presiding officers of each of the legislative
37   houses in the several states requesting their cooperation.
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