Texas GOP Leadership Passes Anti-Constitutional Convention Resolution

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The New American:

Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Texas GOP Leadership Passes Anti-Constitutional Convention Resolution

 

Written by Kurt Hyde

 

The Texas GOP’s State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) approved an anti-constitutional convention resolution at their December meeting. The resolution said in part:

 

WHEREAS, Any convention called under the authority of Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution will be a “Constitutional Convention” regardless of any title or labels attached to it, such as Constitutional Convention, Con-Con, Compact for America, Convention of the States, or any other label;

The resolution went on to say:

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we call upon the 84th Legislature to rescind any and all existing “calls for a Constitutional Convention”;