| 1 | 1 | | 88R14568 BEF-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Wilson H.J.R. No. 200 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A JOINT RESOLUTION |
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| 6 | 6 | | ratifying a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United |
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| 7 | 7 | | States relating to the number of representatives in the United |
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| 8 | 8 | | States House of Representatives. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of Texas, pursuant |
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| 11 | 11 | | to Article V of the United States Constitution, does hereby ratify |
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| 12 | 12 | | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by |
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| 13 | 13 | | resolution of the First Congress of the United States in New York, |
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| 14 | 14 | | New York, on September 25, 1789, which reads as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | "RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the |
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| 16 | 16 | | United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both |
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| 17 | 17 | | Houses concurring, that the following [Article] be proposed to the |
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| 18 | 18 | | Legislatures of the several States, . . . which [Article], when |
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| 19 | 19 | | ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to |
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| 20 | 20 | | all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz. |
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| 21 | 21 | | "[An ARTICLE] in addition to, and Amendment of the |
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| 22 | 22 | | Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, |
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| 23 | 23 | | and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to |
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| 24 | 24 | | the fifth Article of the original Constitution. |
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| 25 | 25 | | "Article the first . . . After the first enumeration required |
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| 26 | 26 | | by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one |
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| 27 | 27 | | Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall |
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| 28 | 28 | | amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so |
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| 29 | 29 | | regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred |
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| 30 | 30 | | Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty |
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| 31 | 31 | | thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount |
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| 32 | 32 | | to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by |
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| 33 | 33 | | Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred |
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| 34 | 34 | | Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty |
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| 35 | 35 | | thousand persons." |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 2. The Legislature of the State of Texas finds that |
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| 37 | 37 | | the above-quoted article of amendment to the United States |
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| 38 | 38 | | Constitution may still be ratified by the state legislatures in the |
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| 39 | 39 | | same manner as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. |
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| 40 | 40 | | SECTION 3. The secretary of state of this state shall: |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) notify the archivist of the United States of the |
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| 42 | 42 | | action of the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular |
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| 43 | 43 | | Session, 2023, by sending the archivist a copy of this resolution; |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) send copies of this resolution to the United |
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| 45 | 45 | | States senators and representatives from Texas, to the vice |
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| 46 | 46 | | president of the United States, and to the speaker of the United |
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| 47 | 47 | | States House of Representatives with the request that it be printed |
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| 48 | 48 | | in full in the Congressional Record; and |
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| 49 | 49 | | (3) send copies of this resolution to the presiding |
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| 50 | 50 | | officers of the legislatures of the states that have not yet |
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| 51 | 51 | | ratified the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. |
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