[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 68 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 68

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
       relative to prayer in public schools and public buildings.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 19, (legislative day, March 3), 1993

  Mr. Roth introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
       relative to prayer in public schools and public buildings.

    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 from the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. Nothing contained in this Constitution shall abridge 
the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public school or other 
public building that is supported in whole or in part through the 
expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
    ``Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by 
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.''.

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