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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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Under Article V of the Constitution of the United
States, amendments to the Federal Constitution may be
proposed by the Congress whenever two—thirds of both
Houses deem it necessary, or on the application of the
legislatures of two—thirds of the several states the
Congress shall call a constitutional convention for the
purpose of proposing amendments; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
this Body proposes to the Congress of the United States
that procedures be instituted in the Congress to add a
new Article XXVII to the Constitution of the United
States, and that the General Assembly of Maryland
requests the Congress to prepare and submit to the
several states an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, requiring in the absence of a national
emergency that the total of all Federal appropriations
made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed
the total of the estimated Federal revenues, excluding
any revenues derived from borrowing, for that fiscal
year; and be it further
RESOLVED, That this Body further and alternatively
requests that the Congress of the United States call a
constitutional convention for the specific and exclusive
purpose of proposing such an amendment to the Federal
Constitution, to be a new Article XXVII; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That this Body also proposes that the
legislatures of each of the several states comprising the
United States apply to the Congress requiring it to call
a constitutional convention for proposing such an
amendment to the Federal Constitution, to be a new
Article XXVII; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the proposed new Article XXVII (or
whatever numeral may then be appropriate) read
substantially as follows:
PROPOSED ARTICLE XXVII
"The total of all Federal appropriations made by the
Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of
the estimated Federal revenues for that fiscal year,
excluding any revenues derived from borrowing; and this
prohibition extends to all Federal appropriations and all
estimated Federal revenues, excluding any revenues
derived from borrowing. The President in submitting
budgetary requests and the Congress in enacting
appropriation bills shall comply with this Article. If
the President proclaims a national emergency, suspending
the requirement that the total of all Federal
appropriations not exceed the total estimated Federal
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