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United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
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 · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect the President and Vice President. Provides 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. Provides that no candidate shall consent to the joinder of his name with that of more than one other person. 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 for electors of President and Vice President. Permits the Congress to establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the person joined as candidates for President and Vice President having the greatest number of votes shall be elected President and Vice President, if such number be at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast and if none of the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President shall have at least 40 percent of the total number of votes, but the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President having the greatest number of votes cast in each of the several States which in combination are entitled to a number of Senators and Representatives in the Congress constituting a majority of the whole number of Members of both Houses of the Congress, such persons shall, be elected President and Vice President. Provides that for the purposes of the preceding sentence, the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a State, and to be entitled to a number of Senators and Representatives in the Congress equal to the number to which it would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the number to which the least populous State is entitled. Provides that if, after any such election, none of the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President are elected the Congress shall assemble in special session, in such manner as the Congress shall prescribe by law, on the thirty-fourth day after the date on which the election occurred. Provides that the Congress so assembled in special session shall be composed of those persons who are qualified to serve as Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives for the regular session beginning in the year next following the year in which the election occurred. Provides that in the special session the Senate and the House of Representatives so constituted sitting in joint session, each Member having one vote, shall choose immediately, from the two pairs of persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President who received the highest numbers of votes cast in the election, one such pair by ballot. Provides that a quorum shall consist of three-fourths of the whole number of Senators and Representatives. Requires the vote of each Member of each House to be publicly announced and recorded. Provides that the pair of persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President receiving the greater number of votes shall be elected President and Vice President and immediately after such choosing requires the special session to be adjourned sine die. Prohibits any other business to be transacted in any special session in which the Congress is assembled under this section. Provides that a regular session of the Congress shall be adjourned during the period of any such special session, but may be continued after the adjournment of such special session and that the assembly of the Congress in special session under this section shall not affect the term of office for which a Member of the Congress theretofore has been elected or appointed, and this section shall not impair the powers of any Member of the Congress with respect to any matter other than proceedings conducted in special session under this section. Provides that the times, places, and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Permits the Congress to prescribe by law the times, places, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Permits the Congress to, by law, 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. Gives the Congress power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
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 · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person who shall have reached the age of twenty-two years shall be disqualified to be a Representative on account of age. Provides no person who shall have reached the age of twenty-seven years shall be disqualified to be a Senator on account of age.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
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 receipts of trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing, and his recommendations with respect to expenditures to be made by the Government, other than expenditures from trust funds, during such ensuing fiscal year, which shall not exceed his estimate of such receipts; (2) his estimate of the receipts of Government trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing, and his estimate and recommendations with respect to expenditures from such trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year. Permits the President, from time to time, to transmit revisions of his estimates of the receipts, and revisions of his estimates and recommendations with respect to expenditures. Permits the President, in transmitting the budget for any fiscal year, to recommend measures for raising additional revenues and measures for the expenditure of all or part of such additional revenues. Provides that, on or before the last day of the second month following the close of such fiscal year, the President shall report to the Congress the actual amount of receipts and expenditures of the Government during such fiscal year, other than receipts and expenditures of trust funds. Provides that during a war or other national emergency the provisions that require the President to submit a budget in which recommended expenditures do not exceed estimated receipts, shall not apply with respect to any period if: (1) the President recommends to the Congress the suspension of such provisions with respect to such period; (2) the Congress by a two-third vote of each House agrees to a resolution suspending such provisions with respect to such period.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Abolishes the electoral college system of electing the President and Vice President of the United States, and replaces this system with election by the people of the several States and the District of Columbia. Entitles each State to the number of electoral votes equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which such State may be entitled in Congress. Provides that each State's official custodian of election returns shall make distinct lists of all persons for whom votes were cast for President and the number of votes cast for each, and shall transmit these lists to the President of the Senate so that the votes may be counted. Directs the crediting of each person for whom votes were cast for President with such proportion of the electoral votes of a State as he received of the total vote of the electors therein for President. States that in making the computations, fractional members less than one one-thousandth shall be disregared unless a more detailed calculation would change the result of the election. Provides that the person having the greatest number of electoral votes for President shall be President, and that if two or more persons have an equal and the highest number of such votes, then the one for whom the greatest number of popular votes were cast shall be President. Repeals the provisions of section I, article II, of the Constitution, preceding the fourth paragraph, and the twelfth and twenty-third articles of amendment to the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building, vessel, aircraft, spacecraft, or facility, which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in nondenominational prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect the President and Vice President. Provides 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, but stipulates that no candidate shall consent to the joinder of his name with that of more than one other person. Provides that, unless Congress provides otherwise, the electors of President and Vice President in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, or such less restrictive qualifications as the State legislatures may prescribe. States 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, but 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. Authorizes the times places, and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot to be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof subject to the Congress power to make or alter such regulations. Specifies that the days for such elections shall be determined by Congress and shall be uniform throughout the United States. Authorizes the Congress, by law, 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. Makes this article effective one year after the 21st day of January next occurring after ratification.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order requiring or encouraging, or directing or permitting any funds to be used or withheld to require or encourage, the transportation or busing of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another or to force any student or students attending any elementary or secondary school in their own neighborhood, where such school is not established purposely to perpetuate segregation, to attend any other school against the choice of his or her parents, parent or guardian, in order to accomplish any objective or purpose, expressed or implied, under the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Requires each judge of the Supreme Court and each judge of an inferior court established by Congress under section I of article III, of 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 terms, 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 its 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 · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each judge of the Supreme Court and each judge of an inferior court established by Congress under section 1 of article III of the Constitution shall hold his office during good behavior for terms of eight years. States 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.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the executive power shall be vested 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 in this Constitution. Provides that the President and Vice President shall be elected by the people of each State in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, and by the people of the District constituting the seat of the Government of the United States in such manner as the Congress shall by law prescribe. States that the Congress may determine the time of the election of the President and Vice President, which day shall be the same throughout the United States. Provides that, in such an election, a vote may be cast only as a joint vote for the election of two persons one of whom has consented that his name appear as candidate for President on the ballot with the name of the other as candidate for Vice President, and the other of whom has consented that his name appear as candidate for Vice President on the ballot with the name of the said candidate for President. States that no person may consent to have his name appear on the ballot with more than one other person. Provides that the official custodian of election returns in each State and in the District of Columbia shall make distinct lists of all presidential candidacies for which votes were cast, and of the number of votes in such State for each candidacy, which lists he shall sign and certify and transmit to the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. Provides that the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the electoral votes shall be computed in the manner provided in this amendment. Entitles each State to a number of electoral votes for each of the offices of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which such State may be entitled in the Congress. Entitles the District to a number of electoral votes for each such office equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State. Provides that, in the case of each State and the District, the presidential candidacy receiving the greatest number of votes shall be entitled to the whole number of the electoral votes of such State or District. Provides that, if a presidential candidacy receives a plurality of at least 40 percent of the electoral votes, the persons comprising such candidacy shall be the President-elect and the Vice-President-elect. States that, if no presidential candidacy receives a plurality of at least 40 percent of the electoral votes, a run-off election shall be conducted, in such manner as the Congress shall by law prescribe, between the two presidential candidacies which received the greatest number of electoral votes. Provides that the Congress shall by law 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, or in the case of a tie. States that this article shall not apply to any election of the President or Vice President for a term of office beginning earlier than one year after the date of ratification of this article.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of the first article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or any other provision of the Constitution, Congress shall have the power to establish, by law, conditions of employment in any facility which Congress determines is essential to the national security, including, but not limited to, the condition that no person shall be employed in such a facility who becomes or remains a member of any organization which advocates, advises, or teaches that the Government of the United States or of any State, district, territory, or possession thereof should be overthrown or destroyed by force or violence.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, in lieu of the method of election provided in section 1 of article II and in the twelfth article of amendment, the President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected by direct vote of the people of the United States. Provides that the Congress shall provide by law for the nomination of candidates for President by a national primary election and for the election of the President and Vice President of the United States by direct vote of the people of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of choice in any area of human discretion wherein a person has a lawful right to choose between two legal alternatives. Provides that all persons shall have freedom of choice in selecting schools, domicle, marital status, employment, and the ownership, use, and disposal of property.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the President shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Representatives, to make treaties. Requires for approval that for each treaty two-thirds of the Senate and the House of Representatives must concur.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 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.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that appointments of judges to the Supreme Court and judges to all other Federal courts, as established under section 1 of article III, be reconfirmed every six years by the Senate. Requires fives years' prior judicial experience as a qualification for appointment to said offices.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the right and duty of designating which public elementary and secondary school a child or ward will attend belongs jointly to the parents or guardian of each child, or ward, and to the local school board for the district in which the child resides, or other local educational authority, and shall not be impaired or denied, either directly or indirectly, by this Constitution or by any law, ordinance, regulation, or action of the United States, or of any State or political subdivision thereof. Provides that a child shall not be refused the right to attend the school of his choice because of race, color, or creed. Provides that the Congress shall have the power to enforce this article with appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that the right and duty of designating which public elementary and secondary school a child or ward will attend belongs jointly to the parents or guardian of each child, or ward, and to the local school board for the district in which the child resides, or other local educational authority. Provides that such right shall not be impaired or denied, either directly or indirectly, by the Constitution or by any law, ordinance, regulation, or action of the United States, or of any State or political subdivision thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no treaty with respect to which the advice and consent of the Senate is required by section 2 of article II of the U.S. Constitution may be made without the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, two-thirds of the Representatives present concurring.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District of Columbia shall elect the President and Vice President. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for such offices shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole vote cast. Provides for a runoff election in any other case.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District of Columbia shall elect the President and Vice President. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for such offices shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole vote cast. Provides for a runoff election in any other case.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
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. States that no public school teacher or other public employee of the United States of America or of one of the several States or any political subdivision thereof, shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to work at any particular job or location.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, notwithstanding section I of article III of the U.S. Constitution, unless the Senate consents to the continuance in office of a Justice of the Supreme Court, such Justice 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. Excludes Justices who have retired from active judicial service from the provisions of this Amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the United States mails shall not be available or used for the transmission, carriage, or delivery of communications hostile to or subversive of this Constitution and the laws and form of government of the United States or of any State. Provides that the Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to determine and define the categories of communications the mailing of which is prohibited by this article and shall have power, by appropriate legislation, otherwise to enforce this article.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District of Columbia shall elect the President and Vice President. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for such offices shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole vote cast. Provides for a runoff election in any other case.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 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.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the mandatory retirement of judges of the Supreme Court from regular active service at the age of seventy. States that this article shall not apply to any person serving as a judge of the Supreme Court on the date of ratification.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
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. States that no public school teacher or other public employee of the United States of America or of one of the several States or any political subdivision thereof, shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to work at any particular job or location.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
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 receipts of trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing, and his recommendations with respect to expenditures to be made by the Government, other than expenditures from trust funds, during such ensuing fiscal year, which shall not exceed his estimate of such receipts; (2) his estimate of the receipts of Government trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing, and his estimate and recommendations with respect to expenditures from such trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year. Permits the President, from time to time, to transmit revisions of his estimates of the receipts, and revisions of his estimates and recommendations with respect to expenditures. Permits the President, in transmitting the budget for any fiscal year, to recommend measures for raising additional revenues and measures for the expenditure of all or part of such additional revenues. Provides that, on or before the last day of the second month following the close of such fiscal year, the President shall report to the Congress the actual amount of receipts and expenditures of the Government during such fiscal year, other than receipts and expenditures of trust funds. Provides that during a war or other national emergency the provisions that require the President to submit a budget in which recommended expenditures do not exceed estimated receipts, shall not apply with respect to any period if: (1) the President recommends to the Congress the suspension of such provisions with respect to such period; (2) the Congress by a two-third vote of each House agrees to a resolution suspending such provisions with respect to such period.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of any State to permit any school supported by public funds to offer, for voluntary participation by the students, any nondenominational prayer or any similar religious statement.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public school or other public building, to participate voluntarily in nondenominational prayer or meditation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Constitution shall not be construed to require that pupils be assigned or transported to public schools on the basis of their race, color, religion or national origin.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Lowers the age requirement for membership in the Houses of Representatives to twenty-two years of age. Lowers the age requirement for membership in the Senate to twenty-seven years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct election of the President and the Vice President. Requires a plurality of at least 40 percent of the votes cast for election to office. PProvides that if no candidates have received 40 percent of the total number of votes, but the persons joined as candidates having the greatest number of votes cast in the election received the greatest number of votes cast in each of the several States which in combination are entitled to a number of Senators and Representatives in the Congress constituting a majority of the whole number of Members of both Houses of the Congress, such persons shall be elected President and Vice President. Provides, in the event that no candidates receive 40 percent of the votes cast and fail to meet the above specifications, that the Congress shall assemble in special session and choose the President and Vice President by publicly recorded vote from among those two pairs receiving the highest number of votes cost in the election. Requires a uniform national election day, and provides that the times, places, and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof. Authorizes the Congress to alter such regulations, and to provide for the eventuality of death or withdrawal of a candidate before or after election day. States that the qualifications for voters in any State shall be the same as apply in the case of voters in such State in elections for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that the Congress may by law prescribe uniform qualifications as to residence. Makes this Amendment effective two years after ratification by the States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
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 non-denominational prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides procedures for redressing grievances of members of the Armed Forces. Prohibits and makes punishable by confinement the following acts when committed by a member of the Armed Forces: the maintenance of unsafe and unsanitary military penal facilities; brutal treatment or cruel and unusal punishment of a prisoner in a military penal facility; brutal treatment of another member of the Armed Forces under color of duty; and denial of constitutional rights to another member of the Armed Forces. Creates a United States Military Justice Commission, to be composed of 11 Presidential appointees and headed by a Chairman, who will be responsible for all administrative operations of the Commission. Establishes the position of Commission General Counsel, who will have final authority with respect to the investigation of complaints. Gives the Commission jurisdiction to determine complaints concerning the offenses listed above, and to adjudge punishment for the violation. Gives the commission the discretion to initiate investigations to determine whether violations have occurred. Prescribes the procedure for filing complaints, for the Commission's action on a complaint, and pretrial and trial procedure. Grants the Commission exclusive jurisdiction over the violations listed above, except for the authority of the United States civil courts to grant writs of habeas corpus. Provides for an annual review and study of the operation of these provisions. Establishes a United States Court of Military Grievances, to consist of 3 judges appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the Court will review the record in cases where a Commission sentence affects a general or flag officer; cases decided by the Commission and sent to the Court for review; and cases decided by the Commission on which the Court grants review. Permits the Court to order a rehearing or dismiss the charges.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides procedures for redressing grievances of members of the Armed Forces. Prohibits and makes punishable by confinement the following acts when committed by a member of the Armed Forces: the maintenance of unsafe and unsanitary military penal facilities; brutal treatment or cruel and unusal punishment of a prisoner in a military penal facility; brutal treatment of another member of the Armed Forces under color of duty; and denial of constitutional rights to another member of the Armed Forces. Creates a United States Military Justice Commission, to be composed of 11 Presidential appointees and headed by a Chairman, who will be responsible for all administrative operations of the Commission. Establishes the position of Commission General Counsel, who will have final authority with respect to the investigation of complaints. Gives the Commission jurisdiction to determine complaints concerning the offenses listed above, and to adjudge punishment for the violation. Gives the commission the discretion to initiate investigations to determine whether violations have occurred. Prescribes the procedure for filing complaints, for the Commission's action on a complaint, and pretrial and trial procedure. Grants the Commission exclusive jurisdiction over the violations listed above, except for the authority of the United States civil courts to grant writs of habeas corpus. Provides for an annual review and study of the operation of these provisions. Establishes a United States Court of Military Grievances, to consist of 3 judges appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the Court will review the record in cases where a Commission sentence affects a general or flag officer; cases decided by the Commission and sent to the Court for review; and cases decided by the Commission on which the Court grants review. Permits the Court to order a rehearing or dismiss the charges.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that no person inducted for training and service in the Armed Forces shall be assigned, without his express consent, to serve in any area of armed conflict in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged except during a period of a war declared by Congress, or except under the following conditions: (1) upon determination by the President that a situation exists which requires the immediate dispatch of the Armed Forces of the United States into an area of armed conflict, he may dispatch such forces as he deems necessary or appropriate, with or without the express consent of the Congress, and so employ those forces for a period of ninety consecutive days commencing on the date of first dispatch; (2) at the close of the ninety-day period specified above persons inducted may continue to serve in such area of armed conflict for an additional period of ninety consecutive days if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution in support of continued employment of the Armed Forces of the United States in such area; and (3) the President shall insure the ability to evacuate all Armed Forces of the United States from such area of armed conflict and so execute that evacuation before the close of the one hundred and eighty-first day after the day of first dispatch of the Armed Forces unless Congress formally declares war before the close of the one hundred and eighty-first day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the right of students to attend the public school nearest their place of residency shall not be denied or abridged for reasons of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex. Gives the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall be deemed to prohibit the offering, reading from, or listening to nondenominational prayers or biblical scriptures, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place, so long as participation therein is on a voluntary basis. Provides that nothing in the U.S. 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 · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct election of the President and the Vice President. Requires a plurality of at least 40 percent of the votes cast for election to office. Provides that if no candidates have received 40 percent of the total number of votes, but the persons joined as candidates having the greatest number of votes cast in the election received the greatest number of votes cast in each of several States which in combination are entitled to a number of Senators and Representatives in the Congress constituting a majority of the whole number of Members of both Houses of the Congress, such persons shall be elected President and Vice President. Provides in the event that no candidates receive 40 percent of the votes cast and fail to meet the above specifications, that the Congress shall assemble in special session and choose the President and Vice President by publicly recorded vote from among those two pairs receiving the highest number of votes cast in the election. Requires a uniform national election day, and provides that the times, places, and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof. Authorizes the Congress to alter such regulations, and to provide for the eventuality of death or withdrawal of a candidate before or after election day. States that the qualifications for voters in any State shall be the same as apply in the case of voters in such State in elections for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that the Congress may by law prescribe uniform qualifications as to residence. Makes this Amendment effective two years after ratification by the States, and makes provisions for Presidential elections in the time between Congressional passage and State ratification of the Amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person who shall have reached the age of twenty-two years shall be disqualified to be a Representative on account of age. Provides no person who shall have reached the age of twenty-seven years shall be disqualified to be a Senator on account of age.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Congress shall have the power, by two-thirds vote of each House of the Congress, to override any decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that judges of both the Supreme and inferior Federal courts shall be appointed for a term of ten years. States that the term of each judge holding office on the date of ratification shall expire December 31, 1969, or fifteen years after the date of his taking the oath of office, whichever date is later.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect at least one Representative in Congress and, as may be provided by law, one or more additional Representatives or Senators, or both, up to the number of which the District would be entitled if it were a State.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled in any public building to participate in nondenominational prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Denies Congress the power to draw money from the Treasury in consequence of appropriations made by law in an amount which exceeds the total amount of the revenues of the United States, exclusive of borrowed sums, except in the case of a national emergency declared by a two-thirds vote of each House of Congress.