HCR11: commemorating the ratification of the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution.

HCR 11 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

14-2133

10/03

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 11

A RESOLUTION commemorating the ratification of the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution.

SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf 6; Rep. J. Schmidt, Hills 28; Rep. Timothy Smith, Hills 17

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

ANALYSIS

This house concurrent resolution commemorates the ratification of the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution concerning the direct election of senators.

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14-2133

10/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

A RESOLUTION commemorating the ratification of the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution.

Whereas, prior to 1913 the United States Constitution provided that senators were elected by the state legislatures; and

Whereas, in May 1912 the United States Congress passed a proposal for a constitutional amendment requiring direct elections for the Senate for ratification by the states; and

Whereas, on February 19, 1913 the state of New Hampshire ratified the amendment; and

Whereas, the amendment was formally declared adopted on May 31, 1913 when of the states had ratified the proposed amendment, making it the Seventeenth Amendment to the United State Constitution; and

Whereas, on November 3, 1914 with the direct election of 32 United States Senators, Jacob Harold Gallinger became the first senator from New Hampshire elected by popular vote; and

Whereas, that the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteed the right of the people to elect their own United States senators; and

Whereas, that the first national general election for senators held 100 years ago was a huge step forward for democracy; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the general court of New Hampshire hereby affirms the state’s support for the direct election of senators; and

That copies of this resolution be forwarded by the house clerk to the governor and the members of New Hampshire’s Congressional delegation.