HB53 mandates that the Wyoming Governor must convene the Legislature within two days of declaring a public health emergency.
The Wyoming State House of Representatives failed to introduce HB53 on February 14, 2024. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because our Founding Fathers believed that checks and balances in government are essential to keep our elected officials in check with the Constitution and to prevent unconstitutional government overreach, and this bill is a step in that direction. Article IV, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, requires that each state have "a Republican Form of Government."
United States Constitution
Article IV Section 3
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
United States Constitution
Article IV Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
United States Constitution
10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
