Model Application under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to Propose an Amendment to Require the Supreme Court of the United States to Be Composed of Nine Justices

Policy Status

  • Type: Model Resolution
  • Status: Final
  • Date Introduced: December 3, 2020
  • Date Finalized: January 8, 2021
  • Date Amended: January 8, 2021

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  • SNPS 2020 Policy

    • Summary

    This model policy serves as an application to Congress to call an amendments convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution. This convention for proposing amendments would be limited to proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require that nine justices serve on the United States Supreme Court concurrently.
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    Model Application under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to Propose an Amendment to Require the Supreme Court of the United States to Be Composed of Nine Justices

    Section 1. The legislature of [INSERT STATE NAME] hereby makes an application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the Constitution of the United States of America, to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.

    Section 2. The Secretary of State is hereby directed to transmit copies of this application to the President and Secretary of the Senate of the United States and to the Speaker, Clerk and Judiciary Committee Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, and copies to the members of the said Senate and House of Representatives from this State; also to transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several States, requesting their cooperation.

    Section 3. This application shall be considered as covering the same subject matter as the applications from other States to Congress to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices; and this application shall be aggregated with same for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention on this subject, but shall not be aggregated with any other applications on any other subject.

    Section 4. This application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States of America until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states have made applications on the same subject.