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38 records in US in 1980
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.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a single six-year term of office for the President, the Vice President, and Members of the Senate. Prohibits any person who has filled a vacancy in the office of President or as a Member of the Senate for a period exceeding three years from being elected to a full term in such office. Prohibits any person who has served as President from being elected to the office of Vice President. Exempts the President and Vice President in office at the time of the ratification of this amendment from its provisions. Declares that the provisions limiting Senators to one term of office shall apply to terms to which a person is elected after ratification of this amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes a Court of the States, consisting of one judge from each State selected in accordance with State law. Grants such Court jurisdiction to hear all cases arising under this or the tenth amendment of the Constitution (reserved powers to States), upon appeal from the Supreme Court. Makes such Court's decisions unreviewable by any other court.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Permits voluntary prayer in public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Eliminates the force and effect of any treaty provision which denies or abridges any constitutionally enumerated rights. Prohibits a treaty from permitting any foreign power or international organization to supervise, control, or adjudicate (1) the rights of U.S. citizens within the United States or (2) matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Predicates the effectiveness of a treaty as internal law of the United States upon the passage of appropriate legislation. Requires executive agreements with foreign powers or international organizations to be made in the manner and to the extent prescribed by law.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any person from holding judicial office under the United States for more than eight years. Applies such limitation to persons appointed after the date of ratification.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the offering of prayers or Biblical scriptures, as long as participation is voluntary, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. Permits references to God or a Supreme Being in public documents, proceedings, schools, or upon U.S. currency.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Permits voluntary prayer in public buildings or places.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the adoption of any Federal budget in which expenditures exceed receipts unless approved by a roll call vote of three-fifths of the Members of each House of Congress directed solely to that subject. Prohibits the Congress from passing and the President from signing any appropriation bill which would cause the total expenditures of the Federal Government to exceed its total receipts in any fiscal year. Permits the Congress to waive such provisions with respect to any single year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Prohibits any annual increase in the proportion of Federal receipts to the national income unless approved by a roll call vote, directed solely to such purpose, of three-fifths of each House.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the term of office of a Justice of the Supreme Court to two terms of twelve years each. Applies such limitation to persons appointed after the date of ratification.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 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 · 22 January 1980
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.