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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 63 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit voluntary participation in prayer in public schools.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits the authority administering any school system, educational institution, or other public building supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds to allow voluntary participation by students or others in prayer. Prohibits the authority administering such entities from prescribing the form or content of any prayer.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 29 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to freedom from forced assignment to schools or jobs because of race, creed, or color.

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. Prohibits assignment of public school teachers or other public employees of the Federal or State governments, and subdivisions thereof, to particular jobs or locations based upon their race, creed, or color.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 59 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to grand juries.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 32 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to force and effect of treaties.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 21 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the busing or involuntary assignment of students.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - States that nothing in the 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 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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 28 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring the submission of balanced Federal funds budgets by the President and action by the Congress to provide revenues to offset Federal funds deficits.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress. Prohibits Congress, whenever deficits exceed receipts for any two-year period, from passing any bill or other measure appropriating any moneys out of the general fund of the Treasury until such time as provisions of law have come into effect which will provide additional revenue, within a period of not more than 12 months thereafter, in an amount not less than the amount by which such expenditures exceed such receipts. Suspends such requirements during a war or other national emergency upon the recommendation of the President and the approval of Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 51 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to provide that appropriations shall not exceed revenues of the United States, except in time of war or national emergency.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit an annual estimate of total revenues. Prohibits Congress from authorizing appropriations which exceed the 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 so requires.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 14 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back 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 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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 20 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the nomination of individuals for election to the Offices of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires official candidates of political parties for President to be nominated in a closed primary election by direct popular vote. Restricts candidates to the primaries of the parties with which they are respectively affiliated. Directs that a candidate be placed on the appropriate party's ballot in all States if such individual files with the President of the Senate before a certain date a petition signed by a specified number of qualified voters in a specified number of jurisdictions. Recognizes as a political party for purposes of such amendment any party which received at least ten percent of the votes cast for all electors for candidates for President and Vice President in the most recent Presidential election. Sets the date of the primary election as the second Saturday after the first Monday in July in the year preceding the expiration of the regular term of President and Vice President, unless Congress directs otherwise. Designates the person receiving the greatest number votes in the primary as the official party candidate if such votes total at least 40 percent of those cast. Requires a runoff election between the two persons receiving the greatest number of votes in the event that no candidate receives such a plurality. Directs each party to nominate a person who is eligible for nomination as Vice President not less than seven nor more than 30 days after selection of that party's Presidential candidate. Designates a party's Vice Presidential candidate as its Presidential candidate if the Presidential nominee dies, resigns, or is disqualified. Prescribes that a committee composed of party nominees for the House of Representatives shall select party candidates if both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates die, resign, or are disqualified.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 16 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the tenure in office of Supreme Court Judges.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a ten-year term of office for justices of the Supreme Court and judges of inferior Federal courts and permits such judges to be reappointed for a second ten-year term by the President, by and with the consent of each House of Congress. Designates December 31, 1983, or ten years after taking office, whichever latter occurs, as the expiration of the terms of Supreme Court justices and Federal judges holding office on the ratification date of such amendment.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 6 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide an age limit and a single 6 year term for the President.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 39 (95th)referred

A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

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 the voters for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for voters for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for voters for President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for voters for 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 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. 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-elect and Vice President-elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 35 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that, except in time of war or economic emergency declared by the Congress, expenditures of the Government may not exceed the revenues of the Government during any fiscal year.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 31 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 23 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the U.S. Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Federal Government's participation in any commercial or financial activity not specifically provided for in the Constitution. Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment. Prohibits taxes on personal income, gifts and estates.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 19 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit compelling attendance in schools other than the one nearest the residence and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 15 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for the special election of a Vice President in cases of vacancy in that office.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that, upon a vacancy in the office of Vice President, the President shall nominate a person who shall become Vice President after being approved in a special referendum by a majority of the voters of the States and other jurisdictions entitled to appoint electors of President and Vice President.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 7 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the continuance in office of judges of the Supreme Court and of inferior courts.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of any inferior court established by Congress from holding office for more than 10 years after (1) taking office, (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office, or (3) the ratification of this amendment, whichever last occurs, unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to a continuance in office.

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