[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 340 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 340

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
provide that no person born to parents who are unlawfully in the United 
  States at the time of the birth shall be a United States citizen on 
                 account of birth in the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 1994

 Mr. Taylor of North Carolina (for himself and Mr. Solomon) introduced 
the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
provide that no person born to parents who are unlawfully in the United 
  States at the time of the birth shall be a United States citizen on 
                 account of birth in the United States.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission to the States for 
ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1. No person born in the United States after the date of 
the ratification of this article shall be a citizen of the United 
States, or of any State, on account of birth in the United States 
unless the mother or father of the person is a citizen of the United 
States, is lawfully in the United States, or has a lawful status under 
the immigration laws of the United States, at the time of the birth.
    ``Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article 
by appropriate legislation.''.

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