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United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Grants all persons the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national ancestry, sex, age, or physical handicap.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires approval of any change in the U.S. tax law to increase Federal revenue by not less than two-thirds of all Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Makes such amendment inapplicable when continuation of the pregnancy will cause the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires approval of any change in the U.S. tax law to increase Federal revenue by not less than two-thirds of all Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the assignment of a public school student to a particular school or location on the basis of such person's race, creed, or color.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a student from being compelled to attend a public school other than the one nearest his or her residence which is located within the student's school district and provides the course of study pursued by such student.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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 · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the territories and areas of the United States (which are not States or parts thereof) to have Representatives in the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires an election for President and Vice President to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November immediately preceding the January in which the current term of office for the President and Vice President ends, unless Congress prescribes a different day. Requires the persons voting for President and Vice President to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, 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 qualifications. Requires each candidate for the office of President to be paired with a candidate for the office of Vice President. Prohibits any candidate from being paired with more than one other person. Requires each voter to cast a single vote for two persons who are paired as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the popular votes cast in such election to be tabulated in accordance with procedures which the Congress shall establish by law. Directs the chief election officials to make and transmit to Congress a list of the pairs of candidates voted for President and Vice President in each State and the number of votes cast for each pair. Requires each State to establish by law a number of districts equal to the number of Representatives to which each State is entitled. Declares that for each district established, the pair of candidates receiving the higher number of popular votes in that district shall receive one electoral vote. Declares that for each State and the District of Columbia the pair of candidates receiving the higher number of popular votes shall receive two popular votes. States that the pair of candidates receiving the majority of the electoral votes shall become President and Vice President. Directs Congress to assemble in special session if after any such election no Presidential candidacy receives a majority of the vote. Requires the Senate and the House of Representatives sitting in joint session to choose, from the three pairs of persons joined as candidates who received the highest number of electoral votes cast in the election, one such pair by ballot. Requires Congress to provide for the case of death, disability, or withdrawal of any candidate on or before the date of the election.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for enactment and repeal of laws by popular vote. Excludes the right to propose constitutional amendments. Requires an issue to be placed on the next presidential ballot if a petition proposing enactment or repeal of a law is signed by at least eight percent of the whole number of voters in the last presidential election in each of at least three-fourths of the States. Requires for passage that such proposal receive a majority of votes in at least three-fourths of the States. Declares that no law passed by popular vote is subject to presidential approval or amendment or repeal except by another popular vote or a three-fourths vote of each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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 (income tax). Prohibits taxes on personal income, gifts and estates.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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. States 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 for the manner in which the candidacies appear on the ballot, 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 case 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 · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the assignment of a public school student or teacher to a particular school or location on the basis of such person's race, creed, or color.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the President an item veto of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing such a bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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 within the United States; or (2) matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Subjects executive and other international agreements to the limitations on treaties imposed by this Amendment. Predicates the effectiveness of a treaty as U.S. law upon the passage of appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress by law to designate the day upon which each election shall be held for President and Vice President. Requires the persons voting for President and Vice President in a State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. Requires the electors from the District of Columbia to have such qualifications as the Congress or a governmental authority in the District designated by the Congress shall prescribe. Requires each candidate for the office of President to be paired with a candidate for the office of Vice President. Prohibits any candidate from being paired with more than one other person. Requires each voter to cast a single vote for two persons who are paired as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires each State and the District to tabulate the votes cast in such election. Requires each State to establish by law a number of districts equal to the number of Representatives to which each State is entitled. Declares that each congressional district shall receive one electoral vote and each State shall receive two electoral votes and that the District of Columbia shall have a number of electoral votes equal to the number of Senators or Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Declares that, for each district established, the pair of candidates receiving the higher number of popular votes in that district shall receive the one electoral vote. Declares that for each State, the pair of candidates receiving the higher number of popular votes shall receive the two electoral votes. States that in the District of Columbia the pair of candidates receiving the higher number of popular votes shall receive the electoral votes for the District. Directs the Secretary of State of each State or other designated official to certify and transmit sealed to the President of the Senate a list of the pairs of candidates and the number of electoral votes received by each pair specifying which pair received the electoral votes for each congressional district and for the State. States that the pair of candidates receiving the majority of the electoral votes shall become President and Vice President. Directs that if when all electoral votes have been counted there is a tie, then the electoral votes of the congressional districts and the District shall be counted, and if there is still a tie the House of Representatives shall choose, from the three pairs of persons joined as candidates who received the highest number of all the electoral votes tabulated in the election, one such pair by ballot. Authorizes Congress to provide for the case of death, disability, or withdrawal of any candidate on or before the date of the election.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the power of a State or Congress to declare the punishment for a crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life includes the power to impose the death penalty. Provides that the power of Congress to declare the punishment for treason against the United States also includes the power to impose the death penalty.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a student from being compelled to attend a public school other than the one nearest his or her residence.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the tenure of Federal judges (including Supreme Court justices) to two six-year terms during good behavior.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the term of the President and the Vice President to six years and prohibits any person from holding either office more than once. Precludes any person who has held either office for more than four years to which another person was elected, from being elected to such office. Repeals the 22nd amendment to the Constitution on the limitation on presidential terms of office.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a six-year term of office for the President and Vice President. States that a person elected to a six-year term as President shall be ineligible for serving another term as President.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the election of Federal district judges to six-year terms by judicial district.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life vests from the moment of fertilization without regard to age, health, or condition of dependency.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress to adopt a balanced budget, unless three-fifths of each House votes to approve a budget in which expenditures exceed receipts. Prohibits any appropriation bill which would cause expenditures to exceed the amount adopted in the budget. Prohibits receipts from exceeding the proportion of national income collected in the prior year, unless a specific increase is passed by each House. Authorizes the waiver of the balanced budget provisions in the case of war.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life vests from the moment of fertilization without regard to age, health, or condition of dependency.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any Federal court from requiring the transportation of students for the purpose of achieving racial or ethnic balance of any public school.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Establishes the Commission for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, representing the three branches of the Federal Government and the public, to plan and develop activities to commemorate the historic events that preceded and are associated with the Constitution. Requires Federal departments and agencies to cooperate with the Commission in planning appropriate commemorative activities. Directs the Commission to submit annual reports to the President and the Congress by May 1 of each year through calendar year 1990 on its progress. Requires the Commission to submit a final report to the President by May 1, 1991, including its recommendations and the plans of Federal, State, and local governments, and private groups for such commemoration. Terminates the Commission on December 31, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions of this Act for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and such additional amounts as may be necessary for subsequent fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands to have Representatives in the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 3 September 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the United States or any State from making or enforcing any law which makes distinctions on account of race, color, or national origin. Prohibits any such law to be construed to permit the establishment by private individuals or enterprises of any program that makes distinctions on account of race, color, or national origin. Prohibits the United States or any State from establishing, or permitting any private individual or enterprise from establishing, quotas which make distinctions on account of race, color, or national origin. Prohibits the United States or any State from making any law which prohibits any person without intent to discriminate on account of race, color, or national origin, from taking otherwise lawful actions which have a disproportionate impact on persons on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Prohibits any Federal or State court from issuing any order which makes distinctions on account of race, color, or national origin (except to enforce laws in violation of this article).
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Establishes the Commission for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, representing the three branches of the Federal Government and the public, to plan and develop activities to commemorate the historic events that preceded and are associated with the Constitution. Requires Federal departments and agencies to cooperate with the Commission in planning appropriate commemorative activities. Directs the Commission to submit annual reports to the President and the Congress by May 1 of each year through calendar year 1988 on its progress. Requires the Commission to submit a final report to the President by May 1, 1989, including its recommendations and the plans of Federal, State, and local governments, and private groups for such commemoration. Terminates the Commission on December 31, 1989. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions of this Act for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and such additional amounts as may be necessary for subsequent fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Limits to 18 the number of years a Senator or Representative may serve.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Constitution does not prohibit public schools from providing time for voluntary religious expression and prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1980
Eliminates the jurisdiction of Federal courts established under article III of the Constitution to modify any State court order which is or will be subject to review by the highest court of the State.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes Congress to propose that popular referenda be the mode of ratification used by the States to amend the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1980
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. 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 for electors of President and Vice President. Permits the Congress to establish uniform residence qualifications for the electors of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in the District constituting the seat of government of the United States to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the District legislature, or if no such body exists, the qualifications which Congress may provide. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number is 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 · 24 July 1980
Confers jurisdiction upon the United States Court of Claims to hear all claims which the Assiniboine Nation or Tribe may have against the United States with respect to certain lands defined in the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Makes certain stipulations with regard to any award that may be entered in such claim.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1980
Confers jurisdiction upon the United States Court of Claims to hear all claims which the Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Tribes may have against the United States with respect to certain lands defined in the Treaty of October 17, 1855. Makes certain stipulations with regard to any award that may be entered in such claim.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Repeals the twelfth and twenty-third amendments to the Constitution. Provides that the President and Vice President shall be chosen by electors from the States and the District of Columbia. Provides that: (1) each elector shall vote for a single presidential-vice presidential slate; (2) no person constitutionally ineligible to be President shall be eligible to be Vice President; and (3) the electors shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. States that the two persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President having the greatest number of votes shall win, provided such number is at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast. Stipulates that if no such candidates have at least 40 percent of the total vote, a runoff election shall be held between the two pairs of candidates who received the highest number of votes. States that in the event of death, failure to qualify, or withdrawal of both the President-elect and the Vice President-elect, the House of Representatives shall elect a President and the Senate shall elect a Vice President. Stipulates that if the House is unable to elect a President by a specified date, a special election shall be held to elect a President.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide that Representatives in Congress be apportioned on the basis of the number of U.S. citizens in each State.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
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/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/she has held such office for more than three years of another person's term. Repeals the twenty-second amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Amends current law (42 U.S.C. 1983) creating a Federal cause of action for the violation of a person's civil rights under color of State law to limit the availability of such action to the deprivation of constitutional rights and civil rights and equal protection laws.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1980
Constitutional Amendment - States that the right to life is vested in each human being from the moment of fertilization.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the enactment of budget authority which would result in total estimated budget outlays in excess of recommended Federal revenues in any fiscal year. Authorizes the suspension of such provision during a congressionally declared war or period of economic necessity. 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 · 29 May 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any person who has been convicted of a felony from being a Representative or Senator.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the enactment of laws by popular vote. Stipulates that (1) Constitutional amendments; (2) a declaration of war; and (3) a callup of the militia shall not be included within the scope of such referendum power. States that a law may be proposed by presenting a petition to the chief law enforcement officer of the United States containing the proposed law and signed by at least three percent of the registered voters who voted in the last Presidential election (which includes at least three percent of the registered voters in 25% of the States). Requires a majority of the electoral votes for a proposed law to be enacted. States that each State shall have a number of electoral votes equal to the number of Senators and Representatives it has. Provides that the District of Columbia shall have a number of electoral votes equal to the number of Senators and Representatives it would have if it were a State (but no more votes than the least populous State). Declares that any law to repeal or amend a law passed by popular vote during the two years immediately following its effective date must receive an affirmative roll call vote of two-thirds of the Members of each House.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Empowers each State to choose electors for President and Vice President equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives the State is entitled to in Congress. Mandates the popular election of electors. Requires electors who are elected according to the number of Representatives in the State to be chosen from the electoral districts formed by the State legislature. Requires that successor electors are bound to follow the declaration of voting intention that each elector must make. Stipulates that any vote cast by an elector contrary to the declaration made by the elector shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with his declaration. States that in case of a tie the person having a majority of votes cast by electors from electoral districts shall be President. Directs that in a situation of none receiving such a majority, the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, each having one vote, shall choose the President and Vice President from the top three votegetters. Declares a person constitutionally ineligible to be President ineligible to be Vice President. Directs each State legislature to divide the State into electoral districts containing substantially equal number of inhabitants.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Gives all persons the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national ancestry, sex, age, or physical handicap.