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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 401 (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 · 21 April 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. 406 (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 · 21 April 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. 407 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 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. 397 (95th)referred

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

United States · United States Congress · 20 April 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. 392 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress. Authorizes the election of two Senators and the number of Representatives in the House to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Provides that this amendment shall have no effect upon the present system for selecting the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 384 (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 · 6 April 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. 373 (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 April 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. 378 (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 April 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. 361 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 29 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· SS. 1148 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to erect a memorial in honor of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence in Constitution Gardens in the District of Columbia.

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to erect a memorial in Constitution Gardens in the District of Columbia in honor of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Directs the Administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration to prepare the design and plans for such memorial. Limits expenditures for the design and erection of such memorial to $500,000 of the funds available to the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, other than appropriated funds. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to maintain the memorial.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 353 (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 · 24 March 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. 354 (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 · 24 March 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. 352 (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 · 24 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. 350 (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 · 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. 343 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for four-year terms for Representatives, for a limitation on the number of terms a person may serve in the House of Representatives.

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

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

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right of life.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to establish a new procedure for the election of the President and Vice President.

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. 323 (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 · 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

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the President to disapprove parts of appropriation bills.

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· HJRESH.J.Res. 312 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to establish a new procedure for the election of the President and Vice President.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

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

A bill to repeal sections 3478 and 3479 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 204 and 205), which impose a requirement upon persons prosecuting claims, either as attorney or on their own account, to take the oath of allegiance and to support the Constitution of the United States.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

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. 306 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that the President shall not, without the approval of Congress, grant a pardon to a person for a criminal offense against the United States for which such person has not been convicted.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that no law varying the compensation of Members of the Congress may take effect before an intervening election of Members of the House of Representatives.

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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

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. 294 (95th)referred

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

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

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 · 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

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

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. 295 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for a single 6-year term for the President, and to limit the number of consecutive Congresses in which Senators and Representatives may serve.

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

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the continuance in office of judges of the Supreme Court and of inferior courts.

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

A bill to exercise the power of the Congress under article IV of the Constitution to declare the effect of certain State judiciary proceedings respecting the custody of children.

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

A joint resolution proposing an an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the number of terms of office which members of the Senate and the House of Representatives may serve.

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

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the number of terms of office of Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives.

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.

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