Council of the Cherokee Nation - File #: 08-152b

• File #: 08-152b
• Version: 1
• Name: N/A
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/19/2009
• In control: RULES COMMITTEE
• On agenda: 2/26/2009
• Final action: 3/22/2009
• Enactment date: 3/15/2009
• Enactment #: R-20-09
• Title: A RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII SECTIONS 1 AND 3 OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CONSTITUTION, PURSUANT OT ARTICLE XV SECTION 2, ELIMINATING TERM LIMITS FOR THE OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION AND DEPUTY PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION
• Sponsors: Cara Cowan Watts, Buel Anglen, Julia Coates, Janelle Fullbright
• Indexes: Constitutional Amendment, Deputy Chief, Principal Chief, Term Limits
• Code sections: N/A - Not Applicable
• Related files: 08-152c, 08-152a, 08-152

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/23/2009	1	OFFICE OF THE CHIEF	Signed
3/16/2009	1	TRIBAL COUNCIL	Tabled	Fail
3/16/2009	1	TRIBAL COUNCIL	Approved	Pass
2/26/2009	1	RULES COMMITTEE	Approved and Forwarded to Council	Pass

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A RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII SECTIONS 1 AND 3 OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CONSTITUTION, PURSUANT OT ARTICLE XV SECTION 2, ELIMINATING TERM LIMITS FOR THE OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION AND DEPUTY PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION
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WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation, since time immemorial has exercised the sovereign rights of self-government on behalf of the Cherokee People; and

WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation is a federally recognized Indian Nation with a historic and continual government to government relationship with the United States of America; and

WHEREAS, the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation was approved by Commission of Indian Affairs on April 23, 2002 and ratified by the Cherokee people on July 26, 2003, after said Constitution was revised at a duly called Convention of Delegates as provided by law; and,

WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council is approved by Article XV Section 2 of the Constitution to proposed constitutional amendments when the same are approved by a majority of all members of the Council and submitted to the people for their approval at a general election, or at a special election called for that purpose by a two-thirds vote of the Council; and,

WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 1 of the Cherokee Constitution of 1999 provides as follows:

Section 1:

The executive power shall be vested in a Principal Chief, who shall be styled “The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation”. The Principal Chief shall hold office for a term of four (4) years. No person having been elected to the office of Principal Chief in two (2) consecutive elections shall be eligible to file for the office of Principal Chief in the election next following his or her second term of office. The Principal Chief shall be elected by the registered voters on the same day and in the same manner, except as otherwise provided by this Constitution, as they shall respectively vote for members of the Council in the year 2003 and ...