[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 427 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 427

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 disqualify from certain offices persons who have been convicted of a 
 crime for which a penalty of imprisonment of 6 months or more may be 
                                imposed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 1994

 Mr. Franks of Connecticut 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 
 disqualify from certain offices persons who have been convicted of a 
 crime for which a penalty of imprisonment of 6 months or more may be 
                                imposed.

    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 for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``No person who has been convicted in any jurisdiction of a 
criminal offense for which a penalty of imprisonment for a term of 6 
months or more may be imposed shall hold office as President, Vice 
President, Senator, Representative, or as any popularly elected 
official of the district constituting the seat of Government or of any 
other territory of the United States not in a State.''.
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