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301 records in US in 1977
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits interpretation of the United States Constitution as requiring school systems which assign pupils on a neighborhood basis to assign such pupils in any other manner. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977
Directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to consult with the Architect of the Capitol for the purpose of procuring a bronze facsimile of the original documents of the Constitution of the United States which are deposited with the National Archives. States that these items are to be displayed in an appropriate place in the Capitol, and paid for out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Directs that orders of a State court or a court of the District of Columbia relative to the custody of children of divorced or separated parents be given full faith and credit by every other State and the District of Columbia until such issuing court no longer has under the law of the State in which it is located, or declines to exercise, jurisdiction over modifications of such orders.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Directs that orders of a State court or a court of the District of Columbia relative to the custody of children of divorced or separated parents be given full faith and credit by every other State and the District of Columbia until such issuing court no longer has under the law of the State in which it is located, or declines to exercise, jurisdiction over modifications of such orders.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no appropriations for any fiscal year which exceed the total revenues of the United States for such year. Prohibits spending by, or on behalf of, the United States which exceeds the total revenue for that year. Suspends such requirements when Congress declares war or national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits religious observances in governmental institutions and public places. Permits reference to a supreme being in a governmental or public document, activity, place, or on money. Declares that this amendment shall not constitute establishment of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Lowers to 22 years the age requirement for membership in the House of Representatives and to 27 years for membership in the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares vacant the office of any Senator of Representative who fails to be recorded in person on 60 percent of the roll call votes taken during any regular session of Congress unless such roll call votes were missed due to hospitalization required by illness or accident.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits any State or the Congress to enact laws with respect to the life of an unborn child from the time of conception.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits abortion except under laws permitting medical procedures required to save the life of the mother endangered by continuation of pregnancy.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a single six-year term for the President and Vice President. Limits to six the number of consecutive Congresses in which Senators and Representatives may serve.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Limits to six the number of consecutive Congresses in which Senators and Representatives may serve.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Eliminates the force and effect of any treaty provision which denies or abridges any constitutionally enumerated right. Prohibits a treaty from permitting any foreign power or international organization to supervise, control, or adjudicate (1) the rights of United States citizens or (2) matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Predicates the effectiveness of a treaty as internal law of the United States upon the passage of appropriate legislation. Requires executive agreements with foreign powers or international organizations to be made in the manner and to the extent prescribed by law.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualification requisite and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which persons who received the highest number of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to review Government revenues and expenditures at specified times and to determine a surtax rate when expenditures exceed revenues to insure that receipts will equal outlays. Authorizes a suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States either on the basis of a presentment or indictment of a grand jury or pursuant to an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged. States that this amendment shall not affect the power of Congress to enact appropriate legislation to require a presentment or indictment of a grand jury to hold a person to answer for enumerated offenses or classes of offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a six-year term for the President and a six-year term for the Vice President. Provides that no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than once, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than three years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the Presidency. Exempts any President holding office prior to this amendment's taking effect.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States only on the basis of an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged. States that this Amendment shall not affect the power of Congress to enact appropriate legislation to provide for the impaneling of, and procedures with respect to, any grand jury whose sole function shall be to investigate any crime against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Lowers to 22 years the age requirement for membership in the House of Representatives and to 27 years for membership in the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or by a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency requires such suspension.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Denies eligibility for election to the office of President or Vice President to persons who have attained age 70, extends the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years, and prohibits any person from being elected to the office of President more than once.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the Government to hold a person to answer for any crime against the United States either on the basis of a presentment or indictment of a grand jury or pursuant to an information signed by an attorney for the Government and stating the essential facts of the crime charged.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress the power to disapprove reprieves and pardons granted by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government, during any fiscal year, do not exceed the total receipts of the Government during such fiscal year. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the next 19 succeeding fiscal years thereafter, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to five percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fifth year fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of Members of Congress from that State, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President, the Congress may establish uniform residence and age requirements. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Grants to each State the authority as to the time and place and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion or the ballot. Specifies that if, at the time fixed for declaring the results of such elections, the presidential candidate who would have been entitled to election as President has died, the Vice Presidential candidate entitled to election as Vice President shall be declared elected President. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice president have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President and Vice President elect.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no appropriations for any fiscal year which exceed the total revenues of the United States for such year. Prohibits spending by, or on behalf of, the United States which exceeds the total revenue for that year. Suspends such requirements when Congress declares war or national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no law varying the compensation for the services of Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits an otherwise eligible citizen of the United States to hold the office of President even if such individual is not a natural born citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment- Allows an item veto by the President of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing the bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Provides that such bills shall be subjected to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each voter to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires that if a Presidential candidacy receives a plurality of at least 40 percent of the votes cast, such candidacy shall become the President and the Vice President-elect. Requires the election to be held on a day which is uniform throughout the United States. Directs Congress to assemble in special session on the first Monday of December if, after any such election, no presidential candidacy receives 40 percent of the vote. Requires the Senate and the House of Representatives sitting in joint session to choose immediately, from the two pairs of persons joined as candidates who received the highest number of votes cast in the election, one such pair by ballot. Directs that the law of each State shall govern within such State as to any matter with respect to which the Congress is granted legislative power under this Amendment as long as not inconsistent with any Act of Congress. Gives Congress the power to provide by law for the manner in which the candidacies to appear on the ballot are determined, the places and manner in which the election is held, and the manner in which its outcome is determined. Requires that voters possess the same qualifications as apply in such State in election of Senators, except that Congress may prescribe uniform qualifications regarding age and residence. Allows Congress to provide for the use of death or withdrawal of a candidate on or before the date of the election. Gives Congress power to establish nominating procedures for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment- States that the election of the President and the Vice President shall be determined by a majority of the popular votes cast, or in the event that no person receives a majority, by plurality of the popular votes cast.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Empowers Congress and the States to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty in the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life. Empowers Congress to impose and provide for the carrying out of such penalty in the case of treason against the United States.