HCR 5 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0490
11/02
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 5
SPONSORS: Rep. Sabourin, Rock. 30; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 10
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This concurrent resolution rescinds the adoption of House Concurrent Resolution 40 passed on May 31, 2012 which is an application to the congress of the United States of America to call a convention pursuant to the terms of Article V of the United States Constitution.
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25-0490
11/02
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
A RESOLUTION rescinding House Concurrent Resolution No. 40 passed by the 2012 New Hampshire General Court asking that Congress call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.
Whereas, the general court of the state of New Hampshire acting in the best of intentions, had, on May 31, 2012, passed House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 40 which is an application to the Congress of the United States of America to call an Article V Convention; and
Whereas, the Declaration of Independence proclaims that “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish” their form of government whenever it fails to secure their rights, which implies that a convention of representatives of the sovereign people in an Article V “convention for proposing amendments” would have the inherent power to propose sweeping changes to the Constitution any limitations or restrictions purportedly imposed by the states in applying for such a convention or conventions to the contrary notwithstanding, thereby creating an imminent peril to the well-established rights of the citizens and the duties of various levels of government as defined by our present Constitution; and
Whereas, the Constitution of the United States of America has been amended many times in the history of this nation and may be amended many more times, without the need to resort to an Article V constitutional convention, and has been interpreted for more than two hundred years and has been found to be a sound document which protects the lives and liberties of the citizens; and
Whereas, there is great danger in subjecting our form of government, which is based on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, to sweeping changes that would undermine its philosophical foundation of instituting government based on the principle of securing God-given rights; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the New Hampshire general court does hereby rescind HCR 40, passed on May 31, 2012 ,which is an application by the general court of the state of New Hampshire to the Congress of the United States of America to call a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, pursuant to the terms of Article V; and
That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to the Vice President of the United States as the presiding officer of the United States Senate, to the Secretary of the Senate, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, to the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, to each member of the New Hampshire Congressional Delegation, and to be published in the Congressional Record.
Be it further resolved that the general court of the state of New Hampshire urges the legislatures of each and every state which have applied to Congress to call a convention for either a general or a limited constitutional convention, to repeal, and withdraw such applications.