[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 31 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 31

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
   grant Congress and the States the power to prohibit the physical 
             desecration of the flag of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 21 (legislative day, March 16), 1995

    Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Heflin, Mr. Dole, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. 
  Grassley, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Exon, Mr. Craig, Mr. Ford, Mr. 
Lott, Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Bond, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Campbell, Mr. 
    Coats, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Coverdell, Mr. D'Amato, Mr. 
Faircloth, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Gramm, Mr. Grams, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Helms, 
     Mr. Hollings, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Inhofe, Mrs. Kassebaum, Mr. 
    Kempthorne, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Mack, Mr. McCain, Mr. Murkowski, Mr. 
  Pressler, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Roth, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Shelby, Mr. 
   Smith, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. 
Warner) 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 to 
   grant Congress and the States the power to prohibit the physical 
             desecration of the flag of 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 from the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``The Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the 
physical desecration of the flag of the United States.''.
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