Completed petition Call to end Councillor and Assembly Member Dual Role
The petitioner asks the Welsh Government to bring forward legislation to bar the practice currently exhibited by 7 currently serving Assembly Members to hold TWO elected positions simultaneously,namely holding office as a Councillor witin the Welsh Jurisdiction and also holding office as an elected Assembly Member in the National Assembly of Wales.
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This practice of DUAL mandate simultaneous office holding is expressly BARRED in the US constitution by virtue of :The second paragraph of Article I, sec. 6 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits Members of Congress from holding any other "civil office under the Authority of the United States:" < http://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution\_item/constitution.htm#a1 >. As each states and territory of the U.S. is under the authority of the nation as a whole, one cannot be a Member of Congress and a state or a local elected official.
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