JOINT RESOLUTIONS

No. 2.

JOINT RESOLUTION of the Senate and House of Dele
gates of Maryland, rejecting and refusing to ratify an
amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
proposed by Congress, to the Legislature of the several
States.

WHEREAS, The General Assembly of Maryland has received
official notification of the passage by both Houses of the Sixty-
sixth Congress of the United States of a proposal to amend
the Constitution of the United States, in the words following,
to wit:

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-
thirds of each House concurring therein), that the following
Article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution,
which shall he valid to all intents and purposes as part of
the Constitution 'when ratified by the Legislatures of three-
fourths of the several States:

Article.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall
not he denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of sex.

"Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by
appropriate legislation."

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
we deny that the Congress of the United States has any lawful
right or power to propose such an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States; we deny that the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the States have any lawful right or power
to adopt such an amendment; and we deny that such an
amendment would he validly a part of the Constitution of
the United States if thus adopted, for the following reasons:

The avowed purpose of the people of the United States in
adopting the Federal Constitution was to establish a perpetual
Union of States.