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AMENDMENT TO SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 26

2    AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend Senate Joint Resolution 26, AS
3AMENDED, with reference to the page and line numbers of Senate
4Amendment No. 1, by replacing from line 5 on page 1 through
5line 16 on page 3 with the following:
 
6    "WHEREAS, On February 27, 1861, in an attempt to avert the
7secession of Southern states, United States Representative
8Thomas Corwin of Ohio proposed an amendment to the United
9States Constitution that would prohibit the United States
10Constitution from being amended in a manner that authorizes
11Congress to abolish or interfere with the states' domestic
12institutions, including slavery; and
 
13    WHEREAS, On March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment was
14approved by a joint resolution of the Thirty-Sixth United
15States Congress (12 Stat. 251) and was submitted to the states
16under Article V of the United States Constitution for

 

 

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1ratification with no deadline given for completion of its
2ratification; and
 
3    WHEREAS, The Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of
4Illinois ratified the Corwin Amendment in "An Act ratifying a
5certain amendment to the Constitution of the United States", in
6force June 2, 1863 (Public Laws 1863, p. 41); and
 
7    WHEREAS, The Corwin Amendment has not yet been ratified by
8three-fourths of the states and, therefore, is not part of the
9United States Constitution at this time; and
 
10    WHEREAS, It is still possible that a sufficient number of
11states could belatedly ratify the Corwin Amendment thereby
12adding it to the United States Constitution, as occurred with
13the 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was
14first proposed in 1789 and was not ratified by a sufficient
15number of states until 1992; and
 
16    WHEREAS, With the end of the Civil War and the ratification
17of the actual 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
18in 1865, the purposes of the Corwin Amendment have become moot;
19therefore, be it
 
20    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
21ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

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1CONCURRING HEREIN, That the State of Illinois rescinds its 1863
2ratification of the following proposition, known as the Corwin
3Amendment to the United States Constitution:
 
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"ARTICLE XIII.
5No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will
6authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or
7interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions
8thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by
9the laws of said State."; and be it further
 
10    RESOLVED, That certified copies of this resolution be
11forwarded to the Archivist of the United States, the President
12of the United States, the President and Secretary of the United
13States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House
14of Representatives, and each member of the Illinois
15congressional delegation with the request that it be printed
16verbatim in the Congressional Record."