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United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the U.S. Constitution shall not bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty by any State or the Congress in the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life, and in the case of treason.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that with respect to the right to life, the word 'person' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective dependency including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall abridge 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.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year to: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Directs the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays other than trust funds for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Article in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution, agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the word "pension", as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring, at every stage of biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Exempts from the provisions of this article medical procedures required to save the life of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, with respect to the right to life guaranteed in the United States Constitution, every human being, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any State, shall be deemed, from the moment of fertilization, to be a person and entitled to the right of life.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process and equal protection of the laws. Directs that neither shall the United States nor any State deprive any human being of life on account of illness, age or incapacity.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that no President may pardon himself for any offense against the United States. States that no pardon may be granted to any person who holds or held the office of Vice President or to any person who held the office of President, for any offense against the United States, except after conviction, nor shall such pardon be granted unless the President certifies to the Congress that he is satisfied that such person either is innocent of the charges of which that person was convicted or is suffering from a terminal illness, and the Congress concurs in the granting of the pardon by three-fourths vote of both Houses.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that if, during any session of the Congress, an individual holding the office of Senator or Representative fails to be recorded in person on at least 70 percent of the yea-and-nay rollcall votes of the House of which he is a Member, taken during such session, such office becomes vacant, and the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall notify the executive authority of the State from which such individual was elected of the vacancy. States that the Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person,' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that any provision of a foreign treaty which denies or abridges any right enumerated in this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect. Provides that no treaty shall authorize or permit any foreign power or any international organization to supervise, control, or adjudicate rights of citizens of the United States within the United States enumerated in this Constitution or any other matter essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. States that all executive or other agreements between the President or any international organization shall be made only in the manner prescribed by law, and shall be subject to the limitations imposed on treaties.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the 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 nondenominational prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that no provision of the Constitution shall abridge the freedom of persons to pray. Allows persons to engage in voluntary, nondenominational prayer in all public buildings and public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Revises the procedure to be followed in the event that no Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes. Stipulates that if no person voted for as President has such a majority, then from the persons having the three highest numbers of votes for President, the Senate and House of Representatives together, each member having one vote, shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. Defines a quorum for such purpose as three-fourths of the whole number of the Senators and Representatives, and requires that a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. States that if an additional ballot is necessary, the choice on the second ballot shall be between the two persons having the highest numbers of votes on the first ballot. Provides that if no person voted for as Vice President has such a majority, the Vice President shall be chosen from the persons having the three highest numbers of votes for Vice President in the same manner as herein provided for choosing the President. Empowers the Congress to determine questions concerning breach of faith by electors in the casting of electoral votes, and to provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate and the House of Representatives may choose a President or a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that no public school pupil shall be transported to a particular school because of his or her race, color, national origin, creed, or sex.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States. States that each elector shall 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. Stipulates 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. Authorizes Congress to provide by law for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year to: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Directs the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays other than trust funds for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Article in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution, agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the word "person" as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, including their unborn offspring. Directs that no person shall deprive any unborn person of life, except when necessary to prevent the death of the mother of such person or to terminate a pregnancy of no more than 10 days' duration resulting from rape.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person,' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall prohibit the authority and administering any school, school system, educational institution, or other public building supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds from providing for or permitting the voluntary participation by students or others in prayer. Stipulates that nothing contained in this article shall authorize any such authority to prescribe the form or content of any prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process and equal protection of the laws. Directs that neither shall the United States nor any State deprive any human being of life on account of illness, age or incapacity.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the Congress shall not have power for any fiscal accounting period to draw money from the Treasury in consequence of appropriations made by law in an amount which exceeds in the aggregate the total amount of the revenues of the United States (exclusive of borrowed sums) during the previous fiscal accounting period and five percent of those revenues, except where Congress by two-thirds vote of both Houses during a fiscal accounting period shall determine that a national emergency requires that additional money be drawn from the Treasury during that same fiscal accounting period.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that if an individual takes the office of Vice President under the provisions of the twenty-fifth amendment and subsequently becomes President under that amendment at a time when more than twelve months remain in the term of the President, then there shall be a special election for the offices of President and Vice President, and the twenty-fifth amendment shall not apply to the vacancy in the office of the Vice President caused by such individual becoming President. Provides that such individual shall serve as President only until a President elected in such special election takes the oath of office of President. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in addition to his duties as Speaker, to act as Vice President, and to perform the duties of that office, with one exception that the President pro tempore of the Senate shall serve as President of the Senate with voting privileges, until a Vice President elected in such special election takes the oath of office, and in the event the Senate shall be equally divided, the Secretary of State may cast a vote to break the tie.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Constitutional amendment - allows persons lawfully assembled in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds to participate in nondenominational prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that nothing in the Constitution of the United States shall bar any State or the Congress from enacting laws respecting the life of any unborn child from the time of conception.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Lowers the age requirements for membership in the House of Representatives to twenty- two years and for membership in the Senate to twenty-seven years.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Lowers the age requirements for membership in the House of Representatives to twenty- two years and for membership in the Senate to twenty-seven years.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall abridge 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.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that with respect to the right to life, the word 'person' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective dependency including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices for terms of ten years. Provides that the term of each judge holding office on the date of ratification shall expire December 31, 1969, or 15 years after the date of his taking the oath of office, whichever is the later.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty by any State or the Congress in the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life, and in the case of treason.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that any State having a bicameral legislature may apportion or maintain the membership of one house of its legislature on factors other than population.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that no President may pardon himself for any offense against the United States. States that no pardon may be granted to any person who holds or held the office of Vice President or to any person who held the office of President, for any offense against the United States, except after conviction, nor shall such pardon be granted unless the President certifies to the Congress that he is satisfied that such person either is innocent of the charges of which that person was convicted or is suffering from a terminal illness, and the Congress concurs in the granting of the pardon by three-fourths vote of both Houses.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of any person, while present in any building the construction or operation of which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in religious prayer when all participation therein is voluntary and such prayer is not part of and does not occur in the course of the activities for which such building is primarily used.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no governmental authority shall at any time force any school or school district which is desegregated: (1) to take any action to force the busing of students; (2) require the abolishment of any school so desegrated; or (3) to force, on account of race, creed, or color, the transfer of students to or from a particular school so desegregated over the protest of his or her parents.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the total of all Federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year, except in the case of a national emergency, may not exceed the total of the estimated Federal revenues for that fiscal year excluding any revenues derived from borrowing. Extends this prohibition to all Federal appropriations and all estimated Federal revenues excluding any revenues derived from borrowing.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the Constitution shall be deemed to prohibit the offering, reading from, or listening to prayers or Biblical Scriptures, if participation therein is on a voluntary basis, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. States that nothing in the Constitution shall be deemed to prohibit making reference to belief in, reliance upon, or invoking the aid of God or a Supreme Being in any governmental or public document, proceeding, activity, ceremony, school, institution, or place, or upon any coinage, currency, or obligation of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person who has attained the age of seventy years shall be appointed to be a judge of the United States. Requires that within thirty days after attaining seventy years of age, any judge of the United States shall retire from regular active service.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the term of Office of the President and the Vice President of the United States shall be six years. Provides that no person shall be eligible for election for more than one term as President or Vice President. Requires that a person who has been elected as Vice President for any term shall be eligible for election as President for a later term. Stipulates that a person who has been elected as Vice President for any term, and who during that term has succeeded to the Office of President, shall be eligible for election as President for a later term.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for four-year terms for Members of the House of Representatives. 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.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the President shall hold office during one term of six years and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected as provided in the U.S. Constitution. States that in the event of the death or resignation or disqualification of the official candidate of any political party for President, the person nominated by such political party for Vice President shall resign the Vice-Presidential nomination and shall be the official candidate of such party for President. States that the electoral college system of electing the President and Vice President of the United States is abolished. Provides that unless the Congress shall by law appoint a different day, there shall be held in each State and in the District of Columbia on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the year preceding the expiration of the term of President and Vice President an election in which the people thereof shall vote for President and Vice President. Sets forth the procedures to be followed in tabulating the results of such election. States that Congress shall provide by law, uniform throughout the United States, for new elections in the case of the death of both the persons who, except for their death, would have been entitled to become President and Vice President.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from conception, of life without due process of law; nor deny to any human being, from conception, within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the law. States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human of life on account of age, illness, or incapacity.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Requires each judge of the Supreme Court and each judge of an interior court established by Congress under the U.S. Constitution to hold his office during good behavior for terms of eight years. Provides that during the eighth year of each term of office of any such judge, his nomination for an additional term of office for the judgeship which he holds shall be placed before the Senate in the manner provided by the law, for the advice and consent of the Senate to such additional term, unless that judge requests that his nomination not be so placed. Allows any judge whose nomination for an additional term of office is so placed before the Senate to remain in office until the Senate gives its advice and consent to, or rejects, such nomination. Provides that if the Senate gives it advice and consent to an additional term of office, that term shall commence from the date of such advice and consent, or the day immediately following the last day of his prior term of office, whichever is later.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person,' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall abridge 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.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that notwithstanding section I of article III of the Constitution, 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, a 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.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person,' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.