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United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the tenure of specified Federal judges to ten years unless the Senate consents to a continuance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Designates May 3, 1983, as Polish Constitution Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for staggered four-year terms for Members of the House of Representatives. Prohibits a Representative, during an elected term, from being a candidate for the office of Senator.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Limits Federal judicial tenure to ten years unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to a continuance in office of a judge or justice.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Designates May 3, 1983, as Polish Constitution Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless Congress passes a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes Congress to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect Federal elections. Authorizes the States to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect State and local elections.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex. Denies application of this amendment to any Federal law concerning the military draft or any State law concerning homosexual marriage.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons to participate in voluntary prayer in public schools or institutions. States that no person shall be required by the United States or by any State to participate in prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a six-year term for the offices of President and Vice President and prohibits any person from being elected to such offices more than twice. Declares the term of office of a Representative to be three years. Prohibits a person from being a Senator if such person has been a Senator throughout the immediately preceding three terms, or from being a Representative if such person has been a Representative throughout the immediately preceding six terms. States that such prohibition does not prevent any person from filling a congressional vacancy during a term.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purposes of the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution. Makes such amendment inapplicable when continuation of the pregnancy will cause the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that presidential and vice presidential terms of office shall commence on the 20th day of November and that congressional terms of office shall commence on the 15th day of November in the year of elections to such offices.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that a naturalized citizen is eligible to hold the office of President or Vice President of the United States if he or she is a U.S. citizen for 11 years and is otherwise eligible to hold such office.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to employment opportunity shall be guaranteed to each person by the United States and that Congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Establishes the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. Requires the Commission to: (1) plan and develop appropriate activities to commemorate the bicentennial of the Constitution; (2) encourage private organizations, and State and local governments to organize and participate in bicentennial activities; (3) serve as a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of bicentennial information; and (4) coordinate commemorative activities relating to the bicentennial of the Constitution. Directs the Commission to seek assistance from governmental agencies and organizations. Requires the Commission to submit: (1) a comprehensive report of its recommendations to the President, Congress, and the Judicial Conference within two years of enactment of this Act; and (2) an update of its recommendations each year after submitting the comprehensive report, but before September 30, 1988. Terminates the Commission on September 30, 1988. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and such sums as necessary through FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any person from being elected to the House of Representatives more than five times or to the Senate more than twice.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes Congress to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect Federal elections. Authorizes the States to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect State and local elections.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for staggered four-year terms for Members of the House of Representatives. Requires Representatives who file as candidates in Senate elections to relinquish their seats in the House before the beginning of the succeeding term of Congress. Requires the executive authority of the affected State to fill any such Representative vacancy by holding a special election. Prohibits Representatives required to relinquish their seats from being elected to such succeeding term of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government during any fiscal year (except for the repayment of debt) do not exceed an amount equal to the greater of: (1) the difference between: (a) an amount which bears the same ratio to the gross national product at the close of such fiscal year as outlays for the preceding fiscal year bear to the gross national product at the close of such preceding fiscal year; and (b) an amount equal to one percent of gross national product for such fiscal year; and (2) 20 percent of the gross national product for such fiscal year. Permits a waiver of such limitations in case of national emergency or war, but all expenditures in excess of such limitations must be approved by three-fourths of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Proclaims the English language to be the official language of the United States. Prohibits the United States or any State from requiring the use of any other language. States that this article shall not prohibit educational instruction in a language other than English for the purpose of making students proficient in English.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall be deemed to prohibit voluntary participation in prayer in public buildings or reference to a Supreme Being in public activities or documents.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the tenure of Federal judges (including Supreme Court justices) to a ten-year term during good behavior. Authorizes an additional term upon the advice and consent of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Modifies the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to: (1) state that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself except in open court; and (2) provide that a person shall not be confronted with prior criminal convictions except where they are an element of the crime charged. Modifies the Sixth Amendment to entitle the accused in all criminal prosecutions to be informed of the evidence of the accusation (in addition to the nature and cause of the accusation as currently provided).
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Permits States to propose constitutional amendments if the President establishes that two-thirds of the States have approved proposals for substantially identical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the length of service of Representatives, Senators, and Supreme Court or inferior court judges during specified time periods.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes Congress to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect Federal elections. Authorizes the States to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect State and local elections.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
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. Provides for the phased implementation of this requirement after the ratification of this amendment. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of national emergency, but never by more than ten percent. Provides that during the third 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 third fiscal year. Requires the elimination within three fiscal years of any indebtedness incurred as a result of a national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Requires a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress to pass any concurrent resolution on the budget which carries a deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983
Establishes the Presidential Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. Requires the Commission to: (1) plan and develop appropriate activities to commemorate the bicentennial of the Constitution; (2) encourage private organizations and State and local governments to organize and participate in bicentennial activities; (3) coordinate activities throughout all the States; and (4) serve as a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of bicentennial information. Directs the Commission to seek assistance from private and governmental agencies and organizations. Requires the Commission to submit a report of its recommendations to the President, Congress and the Judicial Conference within two years of enactment of this Act and annually until its termination. Terminates the Commission on December 31, 1989. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and such sums as necessary through FY 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total amount of money expended by the United States in any fiscal year from exceeding the total amount of revenue received by the United States during such year, except revenue received from the issuance of bonds, notes, or other obligations. Prohibits the total amount of money expended by the United States in any fiscal year from exceeding the amount equal to 20 percent of the gross national product during the last calendar year ending before the beginning of such fiscal year. Permits the suspension of such prohibitions during any fiscal year during any part of which the United States is at war declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit prayer or other religious activity in public schools. States that neither the United States nor any State shall require any person to participate in prayer or other religious activity, or influence the form or content of any prayer or other religious activity in such public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for enactment and repeal of laws by popular vote, except for the constitutional powers of Congress to declare war and execute laws. Excludes the right to propose constitutional amendments. Requires an issue to be placed on the ballot in the next congressional election if a petition proposing enactment or repeal of a law is signed by three percent of the whole number of people who voted in the last presidential election in each of ten States. Requires for passage that such proposal receive a majority of votes cast in all States. Declares that no law passed by popular vote is subject to presidential approval or amendment or repeal during the two-year period after enactment except by a two-thirds vote of each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any Member of Congress sentenced for a violation of any State or Federal law for a term of imprisonment exceeding one year from continuing to serve as a Member after the date of sentencing.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a law varying the compensation of Members of Congress from taking effect until after an election of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Declares that no rule, regulation, directive, guideline, memorandum, executive order or agreement, consent decree, or any similar instrument affecting anything other than the internal operations of Government shall have any force of law unless Congress approves it by recorded vote.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - States that the President and Vice President shall hold a six year term of office. Prohibits election more than once for either office. Prohibits a person elected to the Office of President from being subsequently elected to the Office of Vice President. Repeals the twenty-second amendment to the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - States that the President and Vice President shall hold office for a term of six years. Prohibits a person: (1) from being elected more than once to each office; (2) from being elected as President if he or she has been President, or acted as President, for more than three years of another person's term; and (3) from being elected as Vice President if he or she has held such office for more than three years of another person's term. Repeals the twenty-second amendment to the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
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 and the District to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and 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. 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 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 for 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.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Limits Senators and Represenatives to 18 years of service in Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the President to reduce or veto any item of appropriation in any Act or joint resolution, except an item of appropriation for the legislative branch or the judicial branch. Requires the President to return with his objections any item of appropriation reduced or vetoed to the House in which the bill originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President, except that only a majority vote of each House of Congress shall be required to override a disapproval or reduction.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Prohibits the performance of any abortion except under a law which: (1) authorizes an abortion only when there is a reasonable medical certainty that the mother's death would otherwise result; and (2) every reasonable effort is made to preserve the life of any person who is the subject of the abortion.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a Commission to fix the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress on July 1 of each even-numbered year to take effect on the 3rd of January of the next calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that U.S. citizens 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 the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and 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 35 percent of the whole number of votes cast. States 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 for 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.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Prohibit a law increasing the compensation of Members of Congress from taking effect until after an election of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total budget outlays and total new budget authority for any fiscal year from exceeding the corresponding levels for the preceding fiscal year by a percentage greater than the average annual percentage of increase in the gross national product during the three preceding calendar years. Permits suspension of such limitation for a two-year term of the Congress in time of war or national emergency by a concurrent resolution agreed to by three-fourths of the authorized membership of each House.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Makes such amendment inapplicable to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Requires that any change in the U.S. tax law to increase Federal revenue be approved by not less than two- thirds of all Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Federal appropriations from exceeding total revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency by a concurrent resolution which has passed each House of Congress by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its authorized membership.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total amount of money expended by the United States in any fiscal year from exceeding the total amount of revenue received during such fiscal year, except in time of war as declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Makes such amendment inapplicable to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.