South Carolina S 1165: A JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, RELATING TO RENEWAL OF CREDENTIALS, DESIGNATED AS

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South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 1165

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A joint Resolution

SO AS TO ENACT THE "COMPACT FOR A SAFE AND EQUAL 
CONVENTION FOR PROPOSING AMENDMENTS".

WHEREAS, the framers of the Constitution of the 
United States empowered state legislatures to be guardians of liberty by giving 
said bodies the power to propose amendments to the Constitution by calling for 
a Convention for Proposing Amendments whenever two-thirds of the several states 
apply for a convention for the same topic or purpose; and

WHEREAS, the legislatures of each state have the 
sole power and discretion to name their delegates and to give them such 
instructions as may be necessary and lawful; and

WHEREAS, the history surrounding the ratification 
of the Constitution and the first uses of the States' Article V power clearly 
demonstrates that said assemblies were described as a Convention for Proposing 
Amendments; and

WHEREAS, it is inherent in the nature of such a 
Convention, as a meeting of equal sovereigns, that the States vote on the basis 
of equality; and

WHEREAS, the agreement between the States 
concerning the subject matter of a Convention for Proposing Amendments is 
demonstrated by two-thirds of the several States applying for a convention for 
the same purposes or topics; and

WHEREAS, litigation surrounding the attempt by 
Congress to change the deadline for the ratification of the proposed Equal 
Rights Amendment has established a clear rule that once a given phase of the 
Article V amendment process has been completed, its product cannot be altered; 
and

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court has recognized that 
States have the inherent power to form agreements between themselves for 
mutually beneficial purposes; and

WHEREAS, the Compact Clause of the Constitution of 
the United States (Art. I, Sec. 10, Cl. 3) affirms the sovereign power of the 
several states to enter into binding, enforceable agreements; and

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States 
has repeatedly affirmed that an interstate compact does not require 
congressional approval "if it does not impermissibly enhance state power at the 
expense of federal supremacy"; and

WHEREAS, Congress has no power to name, control, 
or instruct any State's delegates to a Convention for Proposing Amendments; and

WHEREAS, Congress has no power to change the 
inherent rule that all voting at a Convention for Proposing Amendments shall be 
on the basis of the equal sovereignty of the States, to wit: one-state, 
one-vote; and

WHEREAS, Congress has no power to designate topics 
for a Convention of the States, but rather has a ministerial duty to call the 
Convention upon receipt of applications from two-thirds of the several States 
for a Convention to propose amendments on the same topics or subjects; and

WHEREAS, the member states to this compact wish to 
affirm the two inherent rules so that all States will be empowered to exercise 
their Article V power to apply for a Convention with assurance that the topic 
or subject matter of the Convention may not be changed by Congress, any State, 
or the Convention itself, and that States will vote as States, enjoying equal 
suffrage at the Convention; and

WHEREAS, this compact is applicable to any 
Convention for Proposing Amendments no matter the topics or subjects for which 
it is called. Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. This joint resolution may be cited as the "Compact for a Safe and Equal 
Convention for Proposing Amendments".

SECTION 2. Whereas, every state adopting this compact and agreeing 
to be bound thereby intends to ensure that at any Convention for Proposing 
Amendments, called for any purpose, that two inherent Article V Convention 
rules are followed without exception, to wit: that all voting is conducted on 
the basis of one-state, one-vote; and that said Convention shall not consider 
any proposed amendment on any topic other than such topics or subjects 
specifically enumerated in the applications of two-thirds of the several states 
which formed the basis for the call of the Convention.

Now, therefore, in 
consideration of their expressed mutual promises and obligations, be it firmly 
resolved and adopted by every state approving this compact that said state 
agrees to be bound thereby notwithstanding any law to the contrary.

SECTION 3. For the purposes of this compact,

 (1) "Compact" 
means this "Compact for a Safe and Equal Convention for Proposing Amendments" 
called under Article V of the Constitution of the United States.

 (2) "Commission" 
means the formal resolution, enactment, or other document which sets forth the 
identity of a state's delegates to a conventi