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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 556 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Provides that the times, places, and manner of appointing electors to choose the President shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations.
Bill· HRH.R. 7752 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Provides that the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, socities, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals, and pursuant to and for the purposes of the "due process" and "equal protection" clauses of the Constitution of the United States shall mean any animate combination of viable human cells capable of becoming or being an actual independent living human (singular or plural) entity.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 547 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, whenever the Congress may determine that the President has lost the confidence of the people to so great an extent that he can no longer effectively perform his responsibilities, the Congress may by law provide that the term of the President and Vice President shall end on a date certain before the expiration of the four-year term and may by law provide for a special election for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. Provides that, unless the incumbent President or Vice President shall have been impeached and removed from office, they shall be eligible to seek election.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 106 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the advice and consent of both Houses of Congress before any treaty or agreement providing for the commitment of United States armed forces to a foreign nation may be made.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 544 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 540 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Requires each State to provide its citizens with an opportunity for elementary and secondary education.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 101 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Vests the executive power in a President of the United States of America. States that he shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected as provided by this Constitution. Recongnizes the existence of political parties, whose membership consists of citizens voluntarily associated together for the purpose of selecting and electing candidates for political office in the United States. Provides that the two political parties with which the greatest number of Members of the Congress are affiliated are authorized to nominate candidates for President and Vice President as herein provided. Provides that the official candidates for President of political parties shall be nominated in a national primary election by direct popular vote of the qualified voters in each State who shall be eligible to vote only in the primary of the party of their registered affiliation. States that Congress shall provide by law the time, place, and manner for the certification of persons as candidates for nomination for President. Provides that no person shall be a candidate for nomination of President except in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation, and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all the States if he shall have filed a valid petition at the seat of the Government of the United States. Provides that each political party for which, in accordance with this article, a presidential candidate shall have been nominated, shall nominate a candidate for Vice President who shall be the official candidate of such party for Vice President throughout the United States. Provides that the President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected at a general election by direct popular vote of the qualified voters of each State. Provides that the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President having the greatest number of votes shall be elected President and Vice President. Provides that the places and manner of holding the primary, runoff, and general elections shall be prescribed in each State by the legislatures thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. Provides qualifications requisite for voters of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 537 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State, or the Congress with regard to any area over which it is granted the power to exercise exclusive legislation, from enacting laws respecting the life of an unborn child from the time of conception.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 100 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a maximum age limit of seventy for any United States judge, Senator, or Representative.
Bill· HRH.R. 7386 (93rd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Provides that the return of a bill, order, resolution, or vote under section 7 of article I of the constitution of the United States is prevented only when the adjournment of the Congress, or of either House, is sine die.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 526 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the terms of Representatives shall be four years and shall commence at noon on the 3rd day of January of the second year after the year of the regular term of the President is to begin. Provides that no Member of a House of Congress shall be eligible for election as a Member of the other House for a term which is to begin before the expiration of the term of the office held by him unless, at least thirty days prior to such election, he shall have submitted a resignation from such office which shall become effective no later than the beginning of such term.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 520 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 513 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no governmental or judicial authority shall henceforth, in any way or for any purpose, prescribe or require any attendance assignments in public schools on the basis of race or color.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 511 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Requires appointments of Supreme Court and other Federal judges to be reconfirmed every ten years. Requires five years' prior judicial experience as a qualification for appointment to the Supreme Court, and requires retirement of Federal judges at the age of seventy years.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 509 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process of law; nor deny to any human being, from the moment of conception, within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws. States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being of life on account of illness, age, or incapacity. Stipulates that Congress and the several States shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 505 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 508 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons, lawfully assembled in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 89 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public school or other public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 184 (93rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Authorizes to be printed as a House document the Constitution of the United States, as amended through July 5, 1971, with an analytical index and ancillaries regarding proposed amendments, prepared by Representative Peter W. Rodino, Junior, of New Jersey, to be bound with a paperback cover of the style and design used in printing House Document Numbered 92-157 of the Ninety-second Congress, and that two hundred and forty thousand additional copies be printed, of which twenty thousand shall be for the use of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the balance prorated to the Members of the House of Representatives.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 502 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to the continuance in office of a judge of the Supreme Court or of an inferior court ordained and established by Congress, that judge may not hold office for more than ten years after: (1) he took office; (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office; or (3) the ratification of this article; whichever last occurs.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 493 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Requires Each Senator or Representative to be an inhabitant of the District and to possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 492 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Requires Each Senator or Representative to be an inhabitant of the District and to possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 491 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that a citizen of the United States shall not be ineligible to the office of President by reason of not being native born if he has been a United States citizen for at least twelve years on the date of election for such office and if he has been fourteen years a resident within the United States on such date.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 485 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Grants the States the power to regulate or forbid the voluntary termination of human pregnancy.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 488 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 478 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the right of any citizen to be assigned to the public school of his parents' or guardian's choice if a minor, or to the public school of his choice if an adult, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States either directly or by means of a condition to the receipt of Federal financial assistance.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 475 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to the continuance in office of a judge of the Supreme Court or of an inferior court ordained and established by Congress, that judge may not hold office for more than ten years after: (1) he took office; (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office; or (3) the ratification of this article; whichever last occurs.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 477 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Supreme Court of the United States shall not render an opinion or decision in any case in which less than a two to one majority of all Justices present and sitting concur.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 476 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State, or the Congress with regard to any area over which it is granted the power to exercise exclusive legislation, from enacting laws respecting the life of an unborn child from the time of conception.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 473 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process of law; nor deny to any human being, from the moment of conception, within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws. States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being of life on account of illness, age, or incapacity. Stipulates that Congress and the several States shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 470 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen every fourth year. Prohibits a Member of the House of Representatives from being a candidate for election as a Senator for a six-year term which is to begin before the expiration of the term of the office held by him unless, at least ninety days prior to such election, the Member shall have submitted a resignation from such office which shall become effective no later than the beginning of such term.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 471 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 468 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 84 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall prohibit the several States and the District constituting the seat of government of the United States from providing for voluntary prayer in the public schools of that jurisdiction, nor shall it abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled in any public building to participate in voluntary prayer.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 467 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the power of a State or of the Congress to declare the punishment of any crime shall include the power to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 462 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Abolishes the electoral college system of electing the President and Vice President of the United States. Provides that the President and Vice President shall be elected by the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States Requires the electors for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, but Congress may establish uniform residence and age qualifications for electors for President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote jointly applicable to President and Vice President. Provides that, on or before the 15th day of December of every year during which a President and Vice President are elected, the official custodian of the election returns of each State and the District of Columbia shall prepare, sign, certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate, a list of all persons for whom votes were cast for President and a separate list of all persons for whom votes were cast for Vice President. Provides that, on the sixth day of January following the election, unless the Congress by law appoints a different day not earlier than the fourth day of January and not later than the tenth day of January, the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. States that the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President and the person having the greatest number of votes for Vice President shall be the Vice President. Provides that if, at the time fixed for the counting of the certified vote totals from the respective States and the District of Columbia, the Presidential candidate who would have been entitled to election as President shall have died, the Vice Presidential candidate entitled to election as Vice President shall be declared elected President. Directs Congress to provide procedures to be followed in consequence of the death or withdrawal of a candidate on or before the date of an election under this article, and for the case of a tie in any election for President and Vice President.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 461 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides no person shall be a Member of Congress who at the time of taking office shall have attained the age of sixty-six years. Excludes from the provisions of this Amendment any Member of Congress completing a term of office which he or she occupied at the time of ratification of this article. Provides that no Justice of the Supreme Court or judge or magistrate in any lower court of the United States shall continue in such office after he or she shall have attained the age of sixty-six years.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 83 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that wherein public education is provided by a State, the District of Columbia, or a territory or possession of the United States, such public education shall be provided by the State, District of Columbia, territory or possession of the United States equally on a statewide basis to all the citizens of the United States residing therein.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 459 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 457 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, by any court, department, or agency of the United States, or of any State, be required to attend a particular school because of race, color, creed, national origin, or economic status. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 454 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, except when a grave national emergency is declared by the Congress by a concurrent resolution which has passed each House by an affirmative vote, the Congress may make no law appropriating expenditures for any fiscal year in excess of an amount equal to the amount of revenues projected by the President in his budget to be received in that fiscal year, less the sum of amounts previously obligated for expenditure in that fiscal year.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 76 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled by apportionment if it were a State. Requires each Senator or Representative so elected to be an inhabitant of the District and to possess the same qualifications as to age and citiizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State. Provides that this article shall have no effect on the provision made in the twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution for determining the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District. Entitles each Representative or Senator from the District to participate in the choosing of the President or Vice President in the House of Representatives or Senate under the twelfth article of amendment as if the District were a State. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 429 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Requires each Senator or Representative so elected to be an inhabitant of the District and to possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State. Provides that this article shall have no affect on the provision made in the twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution for determining the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District. Entitles each Representative or Senator from the District to participate in the choosing of the President or Vice President in the House of Representatives or Senate under the twelfth article of amendment as if the District were a State. Grants the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 427 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 423 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process of law; nor deny to any human being, from the moment of conception, within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws. States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being of life on account of illness, age, or incapacity. Stipulates that Congress and the several States shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 424 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the U.S. House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second and fourth year by the people of the several States. Provides that the term of office of a Representative shall be four years. Establishes procedures to determine which half of the members of the House of Representatives will serve a four year term after the first regular election to which this article applies. Provides that when the number of Representatives of a State are increased or decreased following a reapportionment of Representatives among the several States, all of the Members of the House of Representatives from that State elected at the first election following the reapportionment shall be divided by lot, as equally as may be, into two classes so that, as nearly as possible, the seats of the Members of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, and the seats of the Members of the second class shall be vacated at the expiration of the fourth year. Provides that when a vacancy occurs by resignation of a Member of the House of Representatives, or otherwise, the Member elected to fill that vacancy shall serve for the unexpired period of the term of the Member originally elected for that House seat. Forbids a Member of the House of Representatives to seek or accept the nomination or election to any elective office other than that of United States Representative during his term of office, except when a vacancy occurs in another elective office during his term. Requires a Representative to submit his resignation as a Member of the House of Representatives prior to seeking or accepting the nomination or election to any such other elective office. Provides that the Representatives from any newly admitted State shall be divided into the two classes described in this article immediately after the House of Representatives shall be assembled in consequence of the first election of Representatives from such State.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 411 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Guam shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the delegation of Guam to the Congress, but in no event more than the least populous State. Provides that the Virgin Islands shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the delegation of the Virgin Islands to the Congress, but in no event more than the least populous State. Requires the electors appointed by Guam and the Virgin Islands under the provisions of this amendment to be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State, and they shall meet in such places in Guam and the Virgin Islands, respectively, as the Congress shall designate and perform their duties under the twelfth article of amendment.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 412 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Guam shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the delegation of Guam to the Congress, but in no event more than the least populous State. Provides that the Virgin Islands shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the delegation of the Virgin Islands to the Congress, but in no event more than the least populous State. Requires the electors appointed by Guam and the Virgin Islands under the provisions of this amendment to be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State, and they shall meet in such places in Guam and the Virgin Islands, respectively, as the Congress shall designate and perform their duties under the twelfth article of amendment.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 402 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and any sum appropriated to satisfy the annual need of the Federal Government shall not exceed a computed sum equal to the aggregate of the average of the total appropriations for the three consecutive fiscal years immediately preceding the current fiscal year plus the multiple product of the annual per centum rate of interest paid by the Federal Government, unless Congress shall first declare a national emergency in justification of any appropriation in addition thereto; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
Bill· SS. 1042 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1973
Provides that every bill passed by the Congress be presented to the President or to a person in the Executive Office of the President previously designated and authorized in writing by the President to receive it. Directs the President, if he approves a bill, to place on it his signature and the date and, if he so desires, the word "approved." Provides that if the President does not approve a bill presented to him, he shall return it with his objections to the House in which it originated. States that if he returns a bill prior to adjournment but when the respective House is not actually in session, then presentation to an officer designated and authorized by that House to receive bills under those circumstances shall constitute a return of the bill. Provides that the House to which the bill is returned shall enter the Presidents's objections at large on their Journal and proceed to reconsider it. Directs that if any bill is not returned by the President or his successor in office within 10 days, Sunday excepted, after it is presented as provided for in the bill, it shall be law in like manner as if he had signed it unless either the House or Senate prevent its return by their having adjourned sine die. (Adds 1 U.S.C. 301-106)