ARTICLES OF
INCORPORATION

PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE

Filed December 31, 1990

Current Directors

To:

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs,

Business Regulation Administration

Corporations Division

614 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001

We, the undersigned natural persons of the age of twenty-one years or more, acting as incorporators of a corporation under the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act, adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:

FIRST: The name of the corporation is PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation").

SECOND: The period of duration is perpetual.
THIRD: The purposes for which the Corporation is organized are:
- (a) to promote the establishment of peace in our time, and to further harmonious cooperation among all peoples and ideologies on earth toward the ultimate moral and spiritual perfection of the human race;
- (b) to illustrate, through advocacy and action, the premise that moral and spiritual perfection may only be accomplished upon the principle of "peace through reason" (hereinafter "Educating" or "Communicating");
- (c) to focus energy, on a priority basis ("priority" to be determined by the Board of Directors, and sequentially identified as "Proposition One Committee") to address the single most immediate issue deemed in opposition to the moral or spiritual perfection of the human race, by organizing grass roots movements -- either utilizing or shunning the existing framework of any nation, state, county, or local government, any religious organization, any corporation, or other official or unofficial confederation, grouping, or assembly of people -- and/or by Educating or Communicating, with the intent to isolate or eliminate the root problem of the given issue.
  
  By agreement of the incorporators the first priority (hereinafter "Proposition One") will be:
  - (i) to lobby for and promote bi-national nuclear disarmament and economic conversion through amendments to the Constitutions of both the United States and the Soviet Union;
  - (ii) to organize a grass roots campaign to place a voter initiative for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion on election ballots throughout the United States; and
  - (iii) to publicize and promote policies that will result in global nuclear disarmament and an end to war.
- (d) to do any other act or thing incidental to or connected with the foregoing purposes or in advancement thereof, but not for the pecuniary profit or financial gain of its members, directors, or officers. The purposes for which the Corporation is organized shall be confined to those which are benevolent, charitable, educational and political.
FOURTH: The Corporation shall have members as provided in the Bylaws and each member shall have such voting rights as provided in the Bylaws.
FIFTH: The number of directors and the manner of their election or appointment shall be as provided in the Bylaws, except that the initial number of directors shall be as set forth in the Eighth of these Articles.
SIXTH: In the event of dissolution, all of the assets and property of the Corporation remaining after the payment of any necessary expenses of the Corporation and the discharge of all liabilities and obligations of the Corporation shall be distributed for the purposes of the Corporation to such organizations as shall qualify, subject to the laws of the District of Columbia, and as so required or permitted in the Bylaws.
SEVENTH: The address, including street and number and zip code, of the Corporation's initial registered office is 2817 llth St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 and the name of the Corporation's initial registered agent at such address is Ellen Thomas.
EIGHTH: The number of directors constituting the initial board of directors is three, and the names and addresses, including street and number and zip code of the persons who are to serve as the directors for such period as shall be specified in the Bylaws and until their successors shall be elected and qualified are:
- Ellen Thomas
  2817 llth St., NW
  Washington, DC 20001
- Brett Hamrick
  2817 llth St., NW
  Washington, DC 20001
- Karin Anderson Cartwright
  2817 llth St., NW
  Washington, DC 20001

NINTH: The names and addresses, including street and number and zip code, of each incorporator are:

Ellen Thomas
2817 llth St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Brett Hamrick
2817 llth St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Karin Anderson Cartwright
2817 llth St., NW
Washington, DC 20001

/S/________________________    /S/________________________ 
   Ellen Thomas                   Brett HamriCk 
   INCORPORATOR                   INCORPORATOR

 
Date:  December 28, 1990        /S/________________________ 
                                Karin Anderson Cartwright         
                                INCORPORATOR

I, /S/Lily Galen Arbab, a Notary Public, hereby certify that on the 28th day December, 1990 Ellen Thomas, Brett Hamrick, and Karin Anderson Cartwright appeared before me and signed the foregoing document as incorporators, and have averred that the statements therein contained are true.

My Commission Expires Oct. 15, 1994
(NOTARY SEAL)

Board of Directors - 2000:

William C. Wardlaw, Anna Tucker, Ellen Thomas, Troy C. Kovaks

Current Address:

Proposition One Committee
P.O. Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 USA
202-682-4282 | Please call to fax
prop1@prop1.org | http://prop1.org

Proposition One | Conversion Project

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE

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