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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 70 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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. 69 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced Federal budget.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to review Government revenues and expenditures at specified times and to determine a surtax rate when expenditures exceed revenues to insure that receipts will equal outlays. Authorizes a suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 103 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 76 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 65 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 62 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to grand juries.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States either on the basis of a presentment or indictment of a grand jury or pursuant to an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged. States that this amendment shall not affect the power of Congress to enact appropriate legislation to require a presentment or indictment of a grand jury to hold a person to answer for enumerated offenses or classes of offenses.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 72 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for a single six-year term for the President.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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. 61 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to grand juries.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Allows the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States only on the basis of an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged. States that this Amendment shall not affect the power of Congress to enact appropriate legislation to provide for the impaneling of, and procedures with respect to, any grand jury whose sole function shall be to investigate any crime against the United States.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 95 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 57 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 64 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that except in time of war or economic emergency declared by the Congress, expenditures of the Government may not exceed the revenues of the Government during any fiscal year.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or by a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency requires such suspension.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 50 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide an age limit and a single six-year term for the President.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Denies eligibility for election to the office of President or Vice President to persons who have attained age 70, extends the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years, and prohibits any person from being elected to the office of President more than once.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 60 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to grand juries.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States either on the basis of a presentment or indictment of a grand jury or pursuant to an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 83 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 56 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government, during any fiscal year, do not exceed the total receipts of the Government during such fiscal year. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the next 19 succeeding fiscal years thereafter, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to five percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fifth year fiscal year.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 45 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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 Members of Congress from that State, 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 and age requirements. 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. Grants to each State the authority as to the time and place and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion or the ballot. Specifies that if, at the time fixed for declaring the results of such elections, the presidential candidate who would have been entitled to election as President has died, the Vice Presidential candidate entitled to election as Vice President shall be declared elected President. 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 and Vice President elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 42 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no appropriations for any fiscal year which exceed the total revenues of the United States for such year. Prohibits spending by, or on behalf of, the United States which exceeds the total revenue for that year. Suspends such requirements when Congress declares war or national emergency.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 41 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 71 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 37 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit compelling attendance in schools other than the one nearest the residence and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 34 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States allowing an item veto in appropriations.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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· HJRESH.J.Res. 33 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct election of the President and the Vice President and to authorize Congress to establish procedures relating to the nomination of Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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 that if a Presidential candidacy receives a plurality of at least 40 percent of the votes cast, such candidacy shall become the President and the Vice President-elect. Requires the election to be held on a day which is uniform throughout the United States. Directs Congress to assemble in special session on the first Monday of December if, after any such election, no presidential candidacy receives 40 percent of the vote. Requires the Senate and the House of Representatives sitting in joint session to choose immediately, from the two pairs of persons joined as candidates who received the highest number of votes cast in the election, one such pair by ballot. Directs that the law of each State shall govern within such State as to any matter with respect to which the Congress is granted legislative power under this Amendment as long as not inconsistent with any Act of Congress. Gives Congress the power to provide by law for the manner in which the candidacies to appear on the ballot are determined, the places and manner in which the election is held, and the manner in which its outcome is determined. Requires that voters possess the same qualifications as apply in such State in election of Senators, except that Congress may prescribe uniform qualifications regarding age and residence. Allows Congress to provide for the use of death or withdrawal of a candidate on or before the date of the election. Gives Congress power to establish nominating procedures for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 40 (95th)referred

A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the popular election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment- States that the election of the President and the Vice President shall be determined by a majority of the popular votes cast, or in the event that no person receives a majority, by plurality of the popular votes cast.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 30 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to permit the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in certain cases.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Empowers Congress and the States to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty in the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life. Empowers Congress to impose and provide for the carrying out of such penalty in the case of treason against the United States.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 63 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit voluntary participation in prayer in public schools.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits the authority administering any school system, educational institution, or other public building supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds to allow voluntary participation by students or others in prayer. Prohibits the authority administering such entities from prescribing the form or content of any prayer.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 29 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to freedom from forced assignment to schools or jobs because of race, creed, or color.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Prohibits assignment of public school teachers or other public employees of the Federal or State governments, and subdivisions thereof, to particular jobs or locations based upon their race, creed, or color.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 59 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to grand juries.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States either on the basis of a presentment or indictment of a grand jury or pursuant to an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged. States that this amendment shall not affect the power of Congress to enact appropriate legislation to require a presentment or indictment of a grand jury to hold a person to answer for enumerated offenses or classes of offenses.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 32 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to force and effect of treaties.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Eliminates the force and effect of any treaty provision which denies or abridges any constitutionally enumerated right. Prohibits a treaty from permitting any foreign power or international organization to supervise, control, or adjudicate (1) the rights of United States citizens or (2) matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Predicates the effectiveness of a treaty as internal law of the United States upon the passage of appropriate legislation. Requires executive agreements with foreign powers or international organizations to be made in the manner and to the extent prescribed by law.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 21 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the busing or involuntary assignment of students.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - States that nothing in the Constitution shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order requiring or encouraging, or directing or permitting any funds to be used or withheld to require or encourage, the transportation or busing of students from one school to another or one school district to another or to force any student or students attending any elementary or secondary school in their own neighborhood, where such school is not established purposely to perpetuate segregation, to attend any other school against his or her choice, the choice of his or her parents, parent or guardian, in order to accomplish any objective or purpose, express or implied, under the Constitution.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 28 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring the submission of balanced Federal funds budgets by the President and action by the Congress to provide revenues to offset Federal funds deficits.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress. Prohibits Congress, whenever deficits exceed receipts for any two-year period, from passing any bill or other measure appropriating any moneys out of the general fund of the Treasury until such time as provisions of law have come into effect which will provide additional revenue, within a period of not more than 12 months thereafter, in an amount not less than the amount by which such expenditures exceed such receipts. Suspends such requirements during a war or other national emergency upon the recommendation of the President and the approval of Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 51 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to provide that appropriations shall not exceed revenues of the United States, except in time of war or national emergency.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit an annual estimate of total revenues. Prohibits Congress from authorizing appropriations which exceed the estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or by a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency so requires.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 14 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 20 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the nomination of individuals for election to the Offices of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires official candidates of political parties for President to be nominated in a closed primary election by direct popular vote. Restricts candidates to the primaries of the parties with which they are respectively affiliated. Directs that a candidate be placed on the appropriate party's ballot in all States if such individual files with the President of the Senate before a certain date a petition signed by a specified number of qualified voters in a specified number of jurisdictions. Recognizes as a political party for purposes of such amendment any party which received at least ten percent of the votes cast for all electors for candidates for President and Vice President in the most recent Presidential election. Sets the date of the primary election as the second Saturday after the first Monday in July in the year preceding the expiration of the regular term of President and Vice President, unless Congress directs otherwise. Designates the person receiving the greatest number votes in the primary as the official party candidate if such votes total at least 40 percent of those cast. Requires a runoff election between the two persons receiving the greatest number of votes in the event that no candidate receives such a plurality. Directs each party to nominate a person who is eligible for nomination as Vice President not less than seven nor more than 30 days after selection of that party's Presidential candidate. Designates a party's Vice Presidential candidate as its Presidential candidate if the Presidential nominee dies, resigns, or is disqualified. Prescribes that a committee composed of party nominees for the House of Representatives shall select party candidates if both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates die, resign, or are disqualified.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 16 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the tenure in office of Supreme Court Judges.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a ten-year term of office for justices of the Supreme Court and judges of inferior Federal courts and permits such judges to be reappointed for a second ten-year term by the President, by and with the consent of each House of Congress. Designates December 31, 1983, or ten years after taking office, whichever latter occurs, as the expiration of the terms of Supreme Court justices and Federal judges holding office on the ratification date of such amendment.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 6 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide an age limit and a single 6 year term for the President.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Denies eligibility for election to the office of President or Vice President to persons who have attained age 70, extends the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years, and prohibits any person from being elected to the office of President more than once.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 39 (95th)referred

A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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. 35 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that, except in time of war or economic emergency declared by the Congress, expenditures of the Government may not exceed the revenues of the Government during any fiscal year.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or by a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency requires such suspension.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 31 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 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.

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