SR28 requests that the United States Congress call a convention under Article V of the Constitution, limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be election for as a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate.
The Georgia State Senate passed SR28 on February 22, 2021 by a vote of 34 to 20. We have assigned pluses to the nays because a so-called “Convention of the States” would not be of “limited” purpose, even though SR28 states that their call for an Article V convention would be specifically for term limits. Article V of the U.S. Constitution was designed to correct structural deficiencies in the federal government, not the behavior of its elected officials. SR28 should be opposed in favor of less risky, more precise, and immediate solutions that would restore power back to the states and to the people, such as clear-cut proposals in Congress to repeal bad amendments or state nullification of specific unauthorized federal laws.