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A JOINT RESOLUTION
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ratifying a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United |
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States relating to the number of representatives in the United |
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States House of Representatives. |
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of Texas, pursuant |
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to Article V of the United States Constitution, does hereby ratify |
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an amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by |
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resolution of the First Congress of the United States in New York, |
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New York, on September 25, 1789, which reads as follows: |
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"RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the |
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United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both |
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Houses concurring, that the following [Article] be proposed to the |
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Legislatures of the several States, . . . which [Article], when |
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ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to |
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all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz. |
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"[An ARTICLE] in addition to, and Amendment of the |
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Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, |
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and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to |
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the fifth Article of the original Constitution. |
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"Article the first . . . After the first enumeration required |
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by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one |
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Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall |
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amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so |
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regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred |
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Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty |
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thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount |
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to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by |
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Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred |
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Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty |
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thousand persons." |
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SECTION 2. The Legislature of the State of Texas finds that |
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the above-quoted article of amendment to the United States |
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Constitution may still be ratified by the state legislatures in the |
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same manner as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. |
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SECTION 3. The secretary of state of this state shall: |
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(1) notify the archivist of the United States of the |
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action of the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular |
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Session, 2023, by sending the archivist a copy of this resolution; |
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(2) send copies of this resolution to the United |
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States senators and representatives from Texas, to the vice |
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president of the United States, and to the speaker of the United |
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States House of Representatives with the request that it be printed |
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in full in the Congressional Record; and |
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(3) send copies of this resolution to the presiding |
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officers of the legislatures of the states that have not yet |
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ratified the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. |