The South Dakota House State Affairs Committee held a hearing Monday on HJR 5001 that would call for a Constitutional Convention of the states to impose fiscal and legal restraints on the federal government.
Sponsor, Representative Fred Deutsch of Florence says the country is in danger…..(NEWS14)(on the brink)(:20)

Scott Granville of Pierre used a Constitutional scholar as the basis of his opposition….

Representative Tim Goodwin of Rapid City says legislators have no ideas of the rules of any convention….

The resolution failed on a vote of six to seven. It was then sent to the forty first legislative day on a vote of eight to five.