South Carolina S 1054: Limit Vote to Citizens

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2025-2026 Bill 1054 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 25, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 1054

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

to respectfully request that the united states 
congress propose an amendment to the united states constitution to be submitted 
to the states for ratification providing that only citizens of the united 
states may qualify to vote in any primary or other election for president or 
vice president, for electors for president and vice president, or for senator 
or representative in congress.

Whereas, Article I, Section 2, Clause 1 of the United States 
Constitution grants to each state the exclusive power to determine who 
qualifies to vote in elections for representatives for Congress: "The House of 
Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the 
People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the 
Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State 
Legislature"; and

Whereas, the Seventeenth Amendment of the United States Constitution 
grants to each state the exclusive power to determine who qualifies to vote in 
elections for senators for Congress: "The Senate of the United States shall be 
composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for 
six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State 
shall have the qualifications for electors of the most numerous branch of the 
State legislatures"; and

Whereas, while some amendments prohibit states from disenfranchising 
persons for reasons such as race or sex, no provision of the constitution or 
any amendment grants Congress the power to determine who qualifies to vote in 
local, state, or federal elections; and

Whereas, no provision 
of the United States Constitution or any amendment prohibits a state from 
qualifying non-citizens to vote in elections for its legislature; and

Whereas, if a state qualifies non-citizens to vote for its 
legislature, then the constitution requires those same non-citizens must 
qualify to vote in elections for representatives and senators for Congress; and

Whereas, in earlier historical 
times most states qualified non-citizens to vote in elections for its 
legislature and thereby in federal elections; and

Whereas, no federal statute that claims to prohibit non-citizens from 
voting in federal elections can override the power granted by the constitution 
to each state to determine who qualifies to vote in elections for its 
legislature and thereby in federal elections; and

Whereas, the voters of 
South Carolina ratified an amendment to the South Carolina Constitution in 2024 
by a super majority of eighty-six percent that prohibits non-citizens residing 
in South Carolina from voting in local, state, or federal elections; and

Whereas, the constitutions 
of most states do not prohibit the state legislature from legally qualifying 
non-citizens to vote in elections for its legislature and thereby in federal 
elections; and

Whereas, only an amendment to the United States Constitution can 
guarantee to South Carolinians and the American people that only citizens can 
vote in federal elections across all fifty states. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the 
Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:

That the members of the 
South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, do hereby respectfully 
request that the United States Congress expeditiously propose the following 
amendment to the United States Constitution to be submitted to the States for 
ratification:

"Article ____

Section 1. Only citizens 
of the United States may qualify to vote in any primary or other election for 
President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or 
for Senator or Representative in Congress.

Section 2. Appropriate legislation to enforce this article shall be 
prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof, but Congress may at any 
time by law make or alter such regulations. Congress shall have power to 
enforce this article by appropriate legislation for the district constituting 
the seat of government of the United States."

Be it further resolved that 
a copy of this resolution be presented to the members of the South Carolina 
congressional delegation.

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