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Committee hears memorial to rescind five historical Article V applications
Summary
The committee heard Senate Joint Memorial 8008, which would rescind all prior Washington state applications for an Article V constitutional convention. Sponsors and public witnesses said rescission would "clean the slate" on century-old applications and avoid an unintended trigger for a constitutional convention.
Senate Joint Memorial 8008, presented to the State Government & Tribal Relations Committee, would rescind all prior applications by the Washington legislature that requested a constitutional convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.
Connor Schiff, counsel to the committee, summarized Article V options and told members that the state has made five Article V applications in its history; he said there is no national repository for those applications and that legal scholars disagree on whether such…
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