ALASKA Wed HEARING Rescission Art V Constitutional Convention

Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman

Janine Hansen, 775-397-6859, director@nevadafamilies.org

March 17, 2026, In the Year of Our Lord

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EXCITING: 16 other States have rescinded all previous applications for an Article V Constitutional Convention.

ALASKA hearing Wed. March 18, 1pm Alaska time

Room: Gruenberg 120

To Rescind All Previous Article V Constitutional Conventions

Please contact the Committee

MESSAGE: Please support HJR41 to rescind all previous applications for an Article V Constitutional Amendments Convention. Large population states like California will have many more votes than Alaska. The Convention agenda cannot be limited, and our fundamental rights, such as the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, could be jeopardized in an Article V Convention. (Or better yet, write your own message.) More information below.

Contact the House Judiciary Committee:

Chair Andrew Gray: 907-465-4940, Toll Free: 866-465-4940

Representative.Andrew.Gray@akleg.gov

Vice Chair: Chuck Kopp 907-465-3892, Toll Free 866-465-3892

Representative Ted Eischeid 907-465-2095, Toll-Free: 866-465-2095

Representative Genevieve Mina 907-465-3424, Toll-Free: 800-303-0144

Representative Sarah Vance 907-465-2689 Toll-Free: 800-665-2689

Representative Mia Costello 907-465-4993 Toll-Free: 866-465-4993

Representative Jubilee Underwood 907-465-2186 Toll-Free: 800-468-2186

Copy and Paste Emails: Representative.Andrew.Gray@akleg.gov, Representative.Chuck.Kopp@akleg.gov,

Representative.Ted.Eischeid@akleg.gov, Representative.Genevieve.Mina@akleg.gov, Representative.Sarah.Vance@akleg.gov, Representative.Mia.Costello@akleg.gov,

Representative.Jubilee.Underwood@akleg.gov

Text of HJR41: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HJR041A

Information on Testifying on HJR41: https://akleg.gov/docs/pdf/AKLEG_Testimony_Instructions.pdf

More Information:

Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues

Chairman Janine Hansen

info@eagleforum.org, janine@janinehansen.com www.eagleforum.org 775-397-6859

March 6, 2026

To: Members of the Alaska House Judiciary Committee

Re: Support HJR41 to rescind all previous applications to Congress for Article V Constitutional Conventions

An Article V Convention Cannot be Limited: Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of Eagle Forum, often quoted Chief Justice Warren Burger as the highest authority to ever speak out on a Constitutional Convention. He stated: “I have also repeatedly given my opinion that there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the action of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it would be too late to stop the convention if we don’t like the agenda.” In addition, in 2015 the New Jersey Law Journal reported that former Supreme Court Justice “Scalia called it a ‘horrible idea’ to hold a constitutional convention in this age of special interests.”

Jeopardize our Fundamental Rights: In September of 2023 California passed an Article V application which would have completely gutted the Second Amendment. Although in 2025 California rescinded all previous applications for Article V Constitutional Conventions, it does not diminish California’s anti-Second Amendment agenda. Knowing that all 50 states will participate in any Article V Constitutional Convention, we can anticipate that all the well-funded anti-Second Amendment organizations will be there supporting California’s anti-Second Amendment agenda and lobbying to take away our fundamental Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Other rights such as religious liberty and free speech could also be in jeopardy.

Large Population States will Control the Convention: Since the Articles of Confederation were superseded by the U.S. Constitution, representation has always been according to the Great Compromise. Each state has two U.S. Senators and the House of Representatives is based on population, just like the Electoral College. This is the formula the U.S. Senate and House used in their proposed procedural bills for an Article V Convention. This precludes the one state one vote argument promoted by convention advocates. What it would mean is that Alaska would have 3 votes in a Convention and California 54 votes and New York 28 votes.

Ratification Process Could be Changed: The only thing mentioned in Article V that cannot be amended without the consent of the each State is the equal representation in the U.S. Senate. What that means is, that as in the original Constitutional Convention where the ratification process was changed from unanimous consent to amend the Articles, to only nine states necessary to ratify the Constitution, that a new Constitutional Convention could change the ratification process from three-fourths of the states to something less like twenty-six states. In addition, according to Article V, Congress can send any amendments proposed by the Convention to the State Legislature for ratification or to conventions in those states bypassing the state legislatures, which they did in order to pass the repeal of prohibition.

National Eagle Forum stands with the national Republican Party which passed a resolution in 2012 which still stands opposing any Article V Constitutional Convention applications. We encourage Alaska to rescind all previous applications.