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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 63 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency. Provides for the systematic paying back of the national debt over the one-hundred year period beginning with the ratification of this amendment.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 46 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that no grand jury may present or indict or otherwise hold any person to answer for any crime against the United States. Provides that a presentment or indictment of a grand jury shall shall be required in order to hold any person to answer for any crime against the United States but no person may be so held except pursuant to an information signed by the attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 59 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 41 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that no person, from the moment of conception, shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall any person, from the moment of conception, be denied equal protection of the laws. Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being of life on account of age, illness, or incapacity.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 42 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 36 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 55 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each State shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the organization and administration of all public school systems within the State. Requires that the courts of each State shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine all rights, privileges, and immunities of citizens of the State with respect to public schools and public school systems within the State.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 38 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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 or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President, and for the case of a tie.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 33 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that a citizen of the United States otherwise eligible to hold the Office of President shall not be ineligible because such citizen is not a natural born citizen.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 24 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the Constitution of the United States 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 his or her choice, the choice of his or her parent or guardian, in order to accomplish any objective or purpose, express or implied, under the Constitution.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 43 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 20 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the 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. 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 25 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public buliding which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer or meditation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 39 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Congress shall have the power to disapprove any reprieve or pardon granted by the President, and no such reprieve or pardon shall take effect if it is disapproved by two-thirds vote of both Houses of the Congress no later than ninety days after it is granted by the President.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 26 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 16 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, notwithstanding section 1 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, that judge may not hold office for more than ten years after: (1) he took office; (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office; or (3) the ratification of this article, whichever last occurs.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 35 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the election by popular direct vote of the President and Vice President of the United States. Authorizes Congress to establish by law the time, place, and manner of the election of the President and Vice President, and the qualifications of persons eligible to vote in the election.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 22 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected by direct vote of the people of the United States. States that the Congress shall provide by law for the nomination of candidates for President by national primary election and for the election of the President and Vice President by direct vote.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 12 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. States that each Senator or Representative so elected shall be an inhabitant of the District and shall possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 18 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the nomination of Presidential candidates by direct popular vote at a primary election. Requires that no person shall be a candiate for nomination for President except in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation, and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all the States if he shall have filed a petition at the seat of the Government of the United States with the President of the Senate. States that for the purposes of this article a political party shall be recognized as such if the electors for candidates for President and Vice President of such party received, in any or all of the several States, an aggregate number of votes, equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total number of votes cast throughout the United States for all electors for candidates for President and Vice President in the most recent previous Presidential election. Sets forth procedures governing the primary elections in each State. Provides that the person who shall have received the greatest number of votes cast by the voters of the party of his registered affiliation shall be the official candidate of such party for President throughout the United States, if such number be a plurality amounting to at least 40 percent of the total number of such votes cast. Provides for a run-off election in the event that no candidate of a particular party receives 40 percent of the votes cast. Requires each party to nominate a candidate for Vice President not less than seven nor more than thirty days following the selection of a Presidential candidate for such party. 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. Stipulates that the Congress may provide by appropriate legislation for cases in which two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes, for methods of properly identifying candidates in cases where more than one with the same or similar name seeks the same office, and for methods of determing any dispute or controversy that may arise in the counting and canvassing of the votes cast in elections held in accordance with this article.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 8 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 9 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Congressional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from authorizing the withdrawal of funds from the Treasury of the United States during any fiscal year in an amount which exceeds in the aggregate the total amount of the revenues of the United States (exclusive of borrowed sums) for that fiscal year. States that in time of war declared by the Congress, or in time of grave national emergency requiring expenditures in excess of receipts proclaimed by the President, the application of this article may be suspended by a concurrent resolution which has passed each House of Congress by a majority of at least two-thirds.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 10 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 23 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution and that any activities of the U.S. Government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment shall, within a period of three years, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold. Stipulates that three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth amendment shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 5 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency. Provides for the systematic paying back of the national debt over the one-hundred year period beginning with the ratification of this amendment.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 6 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person who has attained the age of seventy years shall be eligible for election to the office of President or Vice President. States that the term of office of the President and Vice President shall be six years, and no person shall be elected to the office of President more than once.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 19 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, except in time of war or national emergency, the Congress shall make no appropriation for any fiscal year if the resulting total of appropriations for such fiscal year would exceed the total revenues of the United States for such fiscal year, nor shall there be expended by or on behalf of the United States during any fiscal year an aggregate amount which exceeds the total revenue of the United States for that fiscal year.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 2 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a school other than the one nearest his residence.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 15 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 7 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person who has attained the age of seventy years shall be eligible for election to the office of President or Vice President. States that the term of office of the President and Vice President shall be six years, and no person shall be elected to the office of President more than once.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 3 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States. States that in such an election, a vote may be cast only as a joint vote for the election of two persons (referred to as a "presidential candidacy") 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. Stipulates that if a presidential candidacy receives a plurality of at least 40 percent of the votes cast, the persons comprising such candidacy shall become the President and the Vice-President-elect. Provides that if, after any such election, none of the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President can be declared elected, the Congress shall assemble in a special joint session to choose, 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. States 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.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 32 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for the printing of 60,000 copies of the Constitution of the United States in Spanish, for use by members of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the House Judiciary Committee.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 28 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that a convention of all the States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shall be called to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Stipulates that each State shall be entitled to send as many delegates to the convention as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress, such delegates to be selected in the manner designated by the legislature of such State.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 23 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for the printing of 60,000 copies of the Constitution of the United States in Spanish, for use by members of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the House Judiciary Committee.