Whereas Article V of the Constitution of the United States states that The Congress … on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments to the Constitution; Whereas congressional and State records of plenary applications for amendments on any subject and applications for the single subject of Inflation-fighting Fiscal Responsibility Amendments compiled by the Article V Library counts Nevada’s continuing application, reported February 8, 1979, in the Congressional Record, as the 34th thus achieving the two thirds congressional mandate to call the Convention for proposing amendments; congressional records reported 39 applications by the end of 1979, 40 in 1983, and 42 total applications over time; Whereas Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 85 stated that The Congress shall call a Convention . Nothing in this particular is left to the discretion of that body ; Whereas beginning in 1979, when Congress appears to have failed in its constitutional duty to count applications and call a Convention for proposing Amendments , the Nation’s debt has increased to more than $31 trillion from $860 billion, while the value of the dollar has declined by over 75 percent; Whereas the Constitution was ratified by Convention delegates chosen in each State by the People thereof , and the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition, was ratified in 1933 by a vote of the people for Yes-pledged delegates in 38 of 39 State Conventions; and Whereas the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Chiafalo v. Washington stated: electors . . . have no ground for reversing the vote of millions of its citizens. That direction accords with the Constitution—as well as with the trust of the Nation that here, We the People rule. : Now, therefore, be it