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AMENDMENT TO SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 26

2    AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend Senate Joint Resolution 26 by
3replacing from line 2 on page 1 through 19 on page 2 with the
4following:
 
5    "WHEREAS, On February 27, 1861, in an attempt to avert the
6secession of Southern states, United States Representative
7Thomas Corwin of Ohio proposed an amendment to the United
8States Constitution that would prohibit the United States
9Constitution from being amended in a manner that authorizes
10Congress to abolish or interfere with the states' domestic
11institutions, including slavery; and
 
12    WHEREAS, On March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment was
13approved by a joint resolution of the Thirty-Sixth United
14States Congress (12 Stat. 251) and was submitted to the states
15under Article V of the United States Constitution for
16ratification with no deadline given for completion of its

 

 

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1ratification; and
 
2    WHEREAS, The Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of
3Illinois ratified the Corwin Amendment in "An Act ratifying a
4certain amendment to the Constitution of the United States", in
5force June 2, 1863 (Public Laws 1863, p. 41); and
 
6    WHEREAS, The Corwin Amendment has not yet been ratified by
7three-fourths of the states and, therefore, is not part of the
8United States Constitution at this time; and
 
9    WHEREAS, It is still possible that a sufficient number of
10states could belatedly ratify the Corwin Amendment thereby
11adding it to the United States Constitution, as occurred with
12the 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was
13first proposed in 1789 and was not ratified by a sufficient
14number of states until 1992; and
 
15    WHEREAS, With the end of the Civil War and the ratification
16of the actual 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
17in 1965, the purposes of the Corwin Amendment have become moot;
18therefore, be it
 
19    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
20ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
21CONCURRING HEREIN, That the State of Illinois rescinds its 1863

 

 

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1ratification of the following proposition, known as the Corwin
2Amendment to the United States Constitution:
 
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"ARTICLE XIII.
4No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will
5authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or
6interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions
7thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by
8the laws of said State."; and be it further
 
9    RESOLVED, That certified copies of this resolution be
10forwarded to the Archivist of the United States, the President
11of the United States, the President pro tempore and the
12Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the
13Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and each
14member of the Illinois congressional delegation with the
15request that it be printed verbatim in the Congressional
16Record."