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<item congress="113" measure-type="hjres" measure-number="52" measure-id="id113hjres52" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-07-24" update-date="2013-08-13">
<title>Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States allowing the States to call a limited convention solely for the purposes of considering whether to propose a specific amendment to the Constitution.</title>
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<action-date>2013-07-24</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, each of which contains an identical amendment to the Constitution, to call a convention solely to decide whether to propose that specific amendment to the states.</p>]]></summary-text>
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