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United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each State shall have the right to establish and prescribe the powers of their local educational agencies.
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 - Provides for the direct election of the President and the Vice-President by the people of the several States and the District of Columbia. Specifies qualifications for voting. Requires such individual to receive at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast. Provides that, if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff 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 number of votes. Authorizes each State legislature to prescribe the times, places, and manner of holding elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot. Provides that the Congress shall establish the time, place, and manner in which the results shall be declared. Authorizes the Congress to provide for the case of death or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice-President, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District of Columbia shall elect the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Requires each Representative elected under this article to be an inhabitant of the District and to possess the qualifications relating to age and citizenship that are required by this Constitution for a Representative elected from a State. Provides that each Representative elected under this article shall have the same rights, privileges, and obligations of a Representative elected from a State. Provides that this article shall have no effect on the provision made in the twenty-third article of amendment to this Constitution for determining the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District. Gives the Congress the power to implement this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District of Columbia shall be the electors of 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 on the ballot. Allows each State to adopt less restrictive voting requirements for the offices of President and Vice President than for the Congressional offices from that State. Permits Congress to adopt uniform residence and age requirements for voting in such elections. Authorizes Congress to prescribe the qualifications for electors from the District of Columbia. Provides that persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President who shall have received the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected President and Vice President, if such number be at least 40 percent of the total number of votes certified. Provides that 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 certified, a runoff election shall be held between the two pairs joined as candidates for President and Vice President who shall have received the highest number of votes certified. Requires Congress to determine the days of such elections. Allows the States to determine the times, places, and manner of holding such elections. Authorizes Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Permits Congress to provide, by law, for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate or candidates, for the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect, and for the case of a tie.
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 several States and the District of Columbia shall be the electors of 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 on the ballot. Allows each State to adopt less restrictive voting requirements for the offices of President and Vice President than for the Congressional offices from that State. Permits Congress to adopt uniform residence and age requirements for voting in such elections. Authorizes Congress to prescribe the qualifications for electors from the District of Columbia. Provides that persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President who shall have received the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected President and Vice President, if such number be at least 40 percent of the total number of votes certified. Provides that 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 certified, a runoff election shall be held between the two pairs joined as candidates for President and Vice President who shall have received the highest number of votes certified. Requires Congress to determine the days of such elections. Allows the States to determine the times, places, and manner of holding such elections. Authorizes Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Permits Congress to provide, by law, for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate or candidates, for the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect, and for the case of a tie.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that the Constitution shall not be construed to require that pupils be assigned or transported to public schools on the bases of their race, color, religion, or national origin.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that appropriations shall not exceed revenues of the United States, except in time of war or national emergency. Requires the President to annually submit a budget to Congress and to proclaim the total revenue estimate for the next fiscal year. States that suspension of the application of this Article in time of war or national emergency requires the passage of a concurrent resolution by a two-thirds vote in each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the official candidates of political parties for President shall be nominated at a primary election by direct popular vote. Requires each candidate for nomination to be a candidate of the party of his registered affiliation and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all States if he shall have filed a petition at the seat of the Government of the United States with the President of the Senate. Requires such petition to have been signed by at least one percent of the qualified voters in seventeen States who voted in the most recent presidential election. Recognizes a political party as one if the electors for candidates for President of such party received in any or all of the several States, an aggregate number of ten percent of the total number of votes cast in the most recent previous presidential election. Requires such primary day to be uniform throughout the United States and provides that unless Congress shall appoint a different day the primary shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August of the year preceding the expiration of the regular term of President. Provides that the person receiving the greatest number of votes in each party shall be the official candidate if the number be a plurality amounting to at least forty percent of the total votes cast. States that if no person receives forty percent then Congress shall provide for a runoff to be held on the 28th day after the primary between the two persons receiving the greatest number of votes in his party. Provides for nominating a Vice Presidential candidate in the same procedure. Provides 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. Provides that in the event of the deaths or resignations or disqualifications of the official candidates of any political party for President and Vice President, a national committee of such party shall designate such candidates, who shall then be deemed the official candidates of such party, but in choosing such candidates the vote shall be taken by States, the delegation from each State having one vote. Provides that the places and manner of holding any such primary or runoff election shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. Allows Congress to provide by appropriate legislation for cases in which two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes and controversy that may arise in the counting and canvassing of the votes cast in elections held in accordance with this amendment. Gives Congress the power to enforce this amendment 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 prayers or Biblical Scriptures, if participation therein is on a voluntary basis, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. Provides 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. States that nothing in this article shall constitute an establishment of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the official candidates of political parties for President shall be nominated at a primary election by direct popular vote. Requires each candidate for nomination to be a candidate of the party of his registered affiliation and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all States if he shall have filed a petition at the seat of the Government of the United States with the President of the Senate. Requires such petition to have been signed by at least one percent of the qualified voters in seventeen States who voted in the most recent presidential election. Recognizes a political party as one if the electors for candidates for President of such party received in any or all of the several States, an aggregate number of ten percent of the total number of votes cast in the most recent previous presidential election. Requires such primary day to be uniform throughout the United States and provides that unless Congress shall appoint a different day the primary shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August of the year preceding the expiration of the regular term of President. Provides that the person receiving the greatest number of votes in each party shall be the official candidate if the number be a plurality amounting to at least forty percent of the total votes cast. States that if no person receives forty percent then Congress shall provide for a runoff to be held on the 28th day after the primary between the two persons receiving the greatest number of votes in his party. Provides for nominating a Vice Presidential candidate in the same procedure. Provides 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. Provides that in the event of the deaths or resignations or disqualifications of the official candidates of any political party for President and Vice President, a national committee of such party shall designate such candidates, who shall then be deemed the official candidates of such party, but in choosing such candidates the vote shall be taken by States, the delegation from each State having one vote. Provides that the places and manner of holding any such primary or runoff election shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. Allows Congress to provide by appropriate legislation for cases in which two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes and controversy that may arise in the counting and canvassing of the votes cast in elections held in accordance with this amendment. Gives Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall be assigned to attend a particular school because of his race, creed, or color. Provides that no public school teacher shall be assigned to any particular school because of his race, creed, or color.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the President and Vice President shall be elected by popular vote at such time, place, and manner as the Congress by law shall provide. States that the election of the President and the Vice President shall be determined by a majority of the votes cast, or in the event no person receives a majority, by plurality of the votes cast.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the judges of the Supreme Court shall hold their offices for terms of twelve years, commencing on the date of their commissions. Provides that they shall be eligible for reappointment. Provides that this Amendment shall not limit the tenure in office during good behavior of Supreme Court judges who presently hold office.
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 nothing in the U.S. 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. Provides 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. States that nothing in this article shall constitute an establishment of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Federal judges to be reconfirmed by the Senate every six years.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no student shall be compelled to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall be assigned to attend a particular school because of his race, creed, or color. Provides that no public school teacher shall be assigned to any particular school because of his race, creed, or color.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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.
United States · United States Congress · 3 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 · 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 the Congress shall make no law which makes any appropriation for any fiscal year if the resulting total of appropriations for such year would exceed the total revenue of the United States for such 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. Provides that as early as possible during each annual session of the Congress, and from time to time thereafter in the course of the fiscal year, the Ways and Means Committee and the Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives, and the Finance Committee and the Appropriations Committee in the Senate, shall meet jointly: (1) to make and revise estimates of total revenues for the fiscal year; (2) to recommend to the Congress amounts of appropriations, and to revise such recommendations; (3) to examine expenditures of all agencies and other instrumentalities of the United States Government, and to recommend any necessary changes in the levels of such expenditures; and (4) to recommend to the Congress any other actions which may be necessary in order to comply with this amendment. States that there shall be no permanent increase in the national debt and that the national debt existing on the effective date of this article shall be repaid during the one hundred-year period beginning with the first fiscal year beginning on or after the date of final ratification of this amendment at a rate such that one-tenth of such debt will be repaid during each ten-year segment of such one hundred-year period. Provides that in time of war, declared by the Congress, or in the case of a grave national emergency, the application of the amendment may be suspended by a concurrent resolution which has passed both the Senate and the House of Representatives by an affirmative vote of at least three-fourth. Provides that such suspension shall be effective only for the two-year period of the Congress which passes such resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Requires appointments of Supreme Court and other Federal judges be reconfirmed every six years. Requires five years' prior judicial experience as a qualification for appointment to the Supreme Court. Provides for the mandatory retirement of Federal judges at the age of seventy years.
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 - Permits the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that if during any period of one or more consecutive sessions of the Congress, an individual holding the office of Senator or Representative fails to be recorded in person on two hundred yea-and-nay rollcall votes taken during such period or sixty percent of the yea-and-nay rollcall votes taken during such period, whichever is less, 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. Excludes any yea-or-nay rollcall vote of the Congress occurring on or after this article is ratified.
United States · United States Congress · 3 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 · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the President and Vice President shall be chosen in an election by the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat of Government of 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. Provides that where a presidential candidacy receives a plurality of at least 50 percent of the votes cast, the persons comprising such candidacy shall become the President and the Vice-President-elect. Provides that in the event that no candidacy receives 50 percent of the votes, a further election shall be held in which the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall choose between the two candidates receiving the largest number of votes. Provides that the Congress shall have power to provide by law for the manner in which the candidacies to appear on the ballot shall be determined, the places at which and the manner in which the election shall be held, and the manner in which its outcome shall be determined. Provides that the qualifications for voters in any State in any election under this amendment shall be the same as apply in the case of voters in such State in elections of Senators, except that the Congress may by law prescribe uniform qualifications as to age and residence. Provides that whenever no qualification so prescribed by Congress as to residence is in effect, any State may prescribe a residence qualification less restrictive than that which applies in such a State with respect to voters in elections of Senators.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Requires each State to choose a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be chosen an elector. Provides that the electors assigned to each State with its Senators shall be elected by the people thereof and that each of the electors elected by the people of a single-member electoral district formed by the legislature of the State. Requires electoral districts within each State to be of compact and contiguous territory containing substantially equal numbers of inhabitants, and to not be altered until another census of the United States has been taken. Provides that each candidate for the office of elector of President and Vice President shall file in writing under oath a declaration of the identity of the persons for whom he will vote for President and Vice President, which declaration shall be binding upon any successor to his office. Requires the voters in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature in choosing electors. Provides that the electors shall vote by signed ballot for President and Vice President one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, the number of votes for each, and the name and electoral district, if any, of each elector who cast his vote for each such person, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. Requires the President of the Senate to, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. Provides that any vote cast by an elector contrary to the declaration made by him shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with his declaration. Provides that: (1) the person having the greatest number of electoral votes for President shall be the President, and the person having the greatest number of electoral votes for Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such numbers are a majority of the whole number of electors chosen; or (2) if two persons have the same total number of electoral votes, which number is one-half of the whole number of electors chosen, the person having the greatest number of votes cast by electors chosen from electoral districts shall be President, or Vice President, as the case may be. Provides that if no person voted for as President or Vice President has such a majority, then from the persons having the three highest numbers of votes for such office, the Senate and House of Representatives together, each member having one vote, shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President or Vice President. Provides 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. Gives Congress the power to carry this article into effect by appropriate legislation. Provides that this Amendment supersedes the second and third paragraphs of section 1, aritcle II, of the Constitution, the twelfth article of amendment to the Constitution, and section 4 of the twentieth article of amendment to the Constitution. Requires electors appointed pursuant to the twenty-third article of amendment to this Constitution to be elected by the people of such district in such manner as the Congress may direct and requires candidates for elector and electors of such district to have the same obligations, and to perform the same duties, as candidates for elector and electors of the several States under this article.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that judges, both of the Supreme Court and the inferior courts of the United States, shall hold their offices for a term of eight years. Provides that, on the expiration of such term, a judge shall be eligible for another term upon appointment by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 3 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 · 3 January 1973
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. States that the constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States, shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment. Requires the activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected sold. Provides that three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Reserves to each State the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the organization and administration of all public schools and public school systems within the State. Reserves to the courts of each State the exclusive jurisdiction to determine all rights of the citizens of the State with respect to public schools and public school systems within the State. Forbids any officer or court of the United States to infringe upon any right so reserved to the States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that if a Senator or Representative fails to be recorded in person on 70 percent of the yea-and-nay rollcall votes of the House of which he is a member, his office shall become vacant. Makes adjustments to the foregoing in the case of absence due to illness or official business.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no citizen shall be compelled against his will to do or perform any act required on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin.
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 President may approve any appropriation or provision and disapprove any other appropriation or provision in the same appropriation bill. Requires the President to designate the appropriations and provisions disapproved in such bill; and to return a copy of such appropriations and provisions, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in other bills disapproved by the President.
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 prayers or Biblical Scriptures, if participation therein is on a voluntary basis, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. Provides 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. States that nothing in this article shall constitute an establishment of religion.
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 prayers or Biblical Scriptures, if participation therein is on a voluntary basis, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. Provides 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. States that nothing in this article shall constitute an establishment of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 3 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 · 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, in the event that no candidates receive 40 percent of the votes cast, 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 gives the Congress power to provide for the manner in which the candidacies to appear on the ballot shall be determined, for the places at which and the manner in which the election shall be held, for the manner in which its outcome shall be determined, for primary elections, and for the eventuality of death or withdrawal of a candidate on or before the date of election. 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 of Senators, except that the Congress may by law prescribe uniform qualification as to age and residence.
United States · United States Congress · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 January 1973
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 parents, parent or guardian, in order to accomplish any objective or purpose, express or implied, under the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes a Committee on the Constitution in the House of Representatives to consider: (1) measures and matters pertaining to the implementation, restriction, limitation, or reversal of actions of the Supreme Court of the United States and other Federal courts, of the Department of Justice, and of other executive departments and agencies; (2) measures and matters pertaining to the proper separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government under the Constitution of the United States; and (3) measures and matters pertaining to the unlawful usurpation of power by officials of the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating May 3 of each year as "Polish Constitution Day", and invites the people of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Creates a Select Committee in the House of Representatives to be composed of eleven Members to be appointed by the Speaker to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the effect of Federal laws on the quality of education in the United States. Grants the Committee necessary powers.