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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 350 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, Congress shall assemble in special session from which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, disability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 347 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits persons to participate or to decline to participate in voluntary prayer or meditation in public buildings or places supported by public funds.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 340 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits any State to allow, prohibit, or regulate abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 343 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Increases to four years the term of a Member of the House of Representatives, and limits to three the number of times any person may be elected to the House.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 339 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits religious observances in governmental institutions and public places. Permits reference to a supreme being in a governmental or public document, activity, place, or on money. Declares that this amendment shall not constitute establishment of religion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 335 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protection shall apply to human beings, including the unborn irrespective of age, health, ability to function or condition of dependency. Prohibits the deprivation of life to an unborn person, except under laws permitting medical procedures which physically verifiable facts establish are required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 330 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 328 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Revises constitutional procedures for election of President and Vice President to (1) direct that a popular election for the offices be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the November immediately proceeding the January in which the current term of the President ends, (2) require that each candidate for President be paired with a candidate for Vice President, (3) determine electoral votes on the basis of the popular vote with Congressional districts rather than within States, (4) provide for the election of the President and Vice President, if no pair of candidates receives a majority of electoral votes, by the House and the Senate combined, each state to have one vote, and (5) authorize Congress to provide for the case of withdrawal, disability, or death of a Presidential or Vice Presidential candidates, the President-elect, or Vice President elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 324 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Directs that each judge of a district court of the United States shall be selected by election in the appropriate judicial district for a term of six years.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 323 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment- Allows an item veto by the President of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing the bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Provides that such bills shall be subjected to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 37 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Allows an item veto by the President of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing such bills, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Provides that such bills shall be subjected to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President. Excepts bills which appropriate funds for the legislative or the judicial branch of the Government from such Act.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 38 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Reserves to the States the power to regulate abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 312 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Revises constitutional procedures for the election of the President and Vice President to (1) abolish the office of elector, (2) require each candidate for President to be paired with a candidate for Vice President, (3) direct that a State's electoral votes be cast for the pair of candidates receiving a plurality of popular votes, (4) determine the President and Vice President, if no pair of candidates receives a majority of electoral votes, through an election in the House of Representatives with each member having one vote, and (5) authorize Congress to provide for the case of death, disability, or withdrawal of a Presidential candidate, Vice Presidential candidate, President-elect, or Vice President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 311 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HRH.R. 4542 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1977
Repeals the requirement that persons, including attorneys, prosecuting claims before any United States Government department or bureau take an oath of allegiance and support the Constitution of the United States.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 310 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 305 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a Court of the States, composed of one judge from each State, to hear and determine all cases arising under the tenth amendment (reserved powers of the States and people) upon appeal from the Supreme Court.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 306 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the President from granting a pardon to a person for a Federal offense for which such person has not been convicted, unless the granting of such pardon has been approved by a majority vote of the members of each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 308 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 304 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any law varying the compensation of Members of Congress from taking effect before an intervening general election to choose Members of the House of Representatives.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 307 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except pursuant to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 293 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Limits to six the number of consecutive Congresses in which Senators and Representatives may serve.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 298 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits any State to allow, prohibit, or regulate abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 294 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a six-year term for the President and a six-year term for the Vice President. Provides that no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than once, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than three years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the Presidency. Exempts any President holding office prior to this amendment's taking effect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 300 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 290 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 299 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 295 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a single six-year term for the President and Vice President. Limits to six the number of consecutive Congresses in which Senators and Representatives may serve.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 31 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of any inferior court established by Congress from holding office for more than ten years after (1) taking office, (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office, or (3) the ratification of this amendment, whichever last occurs, unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to a continuance in office.
Bill· SS. 797 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Directs that orders of a State court or of a court of the District of Columbia relative to the custody of children of divorced or separated parents be given full faith and credit by every other State and the District of Columbia until such issuing court no longer has under the law of the State in which it is located, or declines to exercise, jurisdiction over modifications of such orders.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 27 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - States that no person may be elected to the Senate for more than two full terms or serve more than 14 years as a Senator. Provides that no person may be elected to the House of Representatives for more than seven full terms or serve more than 15 years as a Representative.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 28 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - States that no person who has been elected to the Senate two times shall be eligible for further service in the Senate. Provides that no person who has been elected to the House of Representatives seven times shall be eligible for election to the House.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 281 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each voter to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the voters for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for voters for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for voters for President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for voters for President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 282 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the President from granting a pardon to a person for a Federal offense for which such person has not been convicted, unless the granting of such pardon has been approved by a majority vote of the members of each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 278 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 270 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits persons over the age of 65 years from taking office as a Member of Congress or continuing in office as a judge or magistrate in a lower court or as a Justice of the Supreme Court.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 276 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Limits members of the House of Representatives to four consecutive terms and Senators to two consecutive terms.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 279 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of any inferior court established by Congress from holding office for more than six years after (1) taking office, (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office, or (3) the ratification of this amendment, whichever last occurs, unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to a continuance in office.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 275 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Extends the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years and prohibits any person from being elected to such offices more than once. Establishes three year terms of office for Members of the House of Representatives. Permits any person previously holding the office of President or Vice President for less than six years to hold such office under this amendment.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 25 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Sets an eight-year term of office for Supreme Court justices and a six-year term of office for judges of inferior Federal courts. Directs that United States district court judges be elected by persons within the appropriate judicial districts.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 267 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Empowers each State to choose electors for President and Vice President equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives the State is entitled to in Congress. Mandates the popular election of electors. Authorizes one elector to be chosen from each electoral district, and two electors to be chosen on a statewide basis. Requires that successor electors are bound to follow the declaration of voting intention that each elector must make. Stipulates that any vote cast by an elector contrary to the declaration made by the elector shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with his declaration. States that in case of a tie the person having a majority of votes cast by electors from electoral districts shall be President. Directs that in a situation of none receiving such a majority, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, each having one vote, shall choose the President and Vice President from the top three votegetters. Declares a person constitutionally ineligible to be President ineligible to be Vice President. Directs each State legislature to divide the State into electoral districts equal in size, with the number of districts equaling the State's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Bill· HRH.R. 3706 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1977
Directs that orders of a State court relative to the custody of children of divorced or separated parents be given full faith and credit by every other State until such issuing court no longer has, under the law of the State in which it is located, or declines to exercise, jurisdiction over modifications of such orders. Defines the term State to mean any State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession of the United States.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 262 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - States that whenever the Senate finds upon a two-thirds vote of its Members that a Supreme Court justice is unable to discharge one or more of his critical duties by reason of permanent disability, including habitual intemperance, such justice shall be removed from office upon concurrence of the House of Representatives.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 260 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits abortion except in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause the mother's death. Requires that every reasonable effort be made to preserve the life of the fetus.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 253 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualification requisite and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which persons who received the highest number of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 249 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the term of office of Members of the House of Representatives shall be four years. Divides the seats of the Representatives into two equal classes so that one half of the Members are chosen every second year. Limits to three the number of consecutive terms which a Member may serve. Prohibits a person who has served three consecutive terms from serving as a Representative during the two-year period beginning immediately after the end of the third term. Limits to three the number of consecutive terms which a Senator may serve. Prohibits a person who has served three consecutive terms of six years from serving during the two-year period beginning immediately after the end of the third term. Prohibits a person who is a Representative with more than one year remaining in his or her term, from being elected to the Senate unless such person has previously submitted a resignation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 254 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the term of office of Members of the House of Representatives shall be four years. Divides the seats of the Representatives into two equal classes so that one half of the Members are chosen every second year. Limits to three the number of terms which a Member may serve. Limits the length of service of Senators to two complete terms. Repeals the clause of the Constitution relating to the length of terms of Representatives.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 245 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 248 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits abortion except in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause the mother's death. Requires that every reasonable effort be made to preserve the life of the fetus.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 242 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the President from granting a pardon to a person for a Federal offense for which such person has not been convicted, unless the granting of such pardon has been approved by a majority vote of the members of each House of Congress.
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