CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PROCEDURES HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 3, S. 520, and S. 1710 BILLS TO PROVIDE PROCEDURES FOR CALLING CONSTITU- 59-609 O NOVEMBER 29, 1979 Serial No. 96-77 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1980 HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah STROM THURMOND, South Carolina KEVIN O. FALEY, Chief Counsel and Executive Director MARY K. JOLLY, Staff Director and Counsel LINDA ROGERs-KingsburY, Chief Clerk and Deputy Staff Director (I) CONTENTS OPENING STATEMENTS Bayh, Hon. Birch, a U.S. Senator from the State of Indiana, chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution___. Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah. PROPOSED LEGISLATION S. 3, S. 520, and S. 1710-Bills to provide procedures for calling consti- tutional conventions for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States, on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of 44 44 Kimmitt, J. S., Secretary of the Senate... Feerick, John D., representing the American Bar Association, New York, Gunther, Gerald, a William Nelson Cromwell professor of law, Stanford Statement on Constitutional Convention application, excerpt from "The Constitution and the Budget," American Enterprise Institute (1980).- 190 |