Full Text of SJR0022 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, On February 27, 1861, in an attempt to avert the | 3 | | secession of Southern states, United States Representative | 4 | | Thomas Corwin of Ohio proposed an amendment to the United | 5 | | States Constitution that would prohibit the United States | 6 | | Constitution from being amended in a manner that authorizes | 7 | | Congress to abolish or interfere with the states' domestic | 8 | | institutions, including slavery; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, On March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment was | 10 | | approved by a joint resolution of the Thirty-Sixth United | 11 | | States Congress (12 Stat. 251) and was submitted to the states | 12 | | under Article V of the United States Constitution for | 13 | | ratification with no deadline given for completion of its | 14 | | ratification; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, The Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of | 16 | | Illinois ratified the Corwin Amendment in "An Act ratifying a | 17 | | certain amendment to the Constitution of the United States", | 18 | | in force June 2, 1863 (Public Laws 1863, p. 41); and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, The Corwin Amendment has not yet been ratified by | 20 | | three-fourths of the states and, therefore, is not part of the | 21 | | United States Constitution at this time; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, It is still possible that a sufficient number of | 2 | | states could belatedly ratify the Corwin Amendment thereby | 3 | | adding it to the United States Constitution, as occurred with | 4 | | the 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which | 5 | | was first proposed in 1789 and was not ratified by a sufficient | 6 | | number of states until 1992; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, With the end of the Civil War and the | 8 | | ratification of the actual 13th Amendment to the United States | 9 | | Constitution in 1865, the purposes of the Corwin Amendment | 10 | | have become moot; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 12 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF | 13 | | REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that the State of Illinois | 14 | | rescinds its 1863 ratification of the following proposition, | 15 | | known as the Corwin Amendment to the United States | 16 | | Constitution:
| 17 | | "ARTICLE XIII. | 18 | | No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will | 19 | | authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or | 20 | | interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions | 21 | | thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by | 22 | | the laws of said State."; and be it further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That certified copies of this resolution be | 2 | | forwarded to the Archivist of the United States, the President | 3 | | of the United States, the President and Secretary of the | 4 | | United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United | 5 | | States House of Representatives, and each member of the | 6 | | Illinois congressional delegation with the request that it be | 7 | | printed verbatim in the Congressional Record.
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