[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 115 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 115

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 permit the Congress to relinquish claims of the United States to the 
portion of the State of Minnesota that lies north of the 49th parallel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 1998

 Mr. Peterson of Minnesota 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 
 permit the Congress to relinquish claims of the United States to the 
portion of the State of Minnesota that lies north of the 49th parallel.

    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 --

    ``Nothing in this Constitution limits any act of the Congress to 
relinquish claims of the United States to the portion of the State of 
Minnesota that lies north of the 49th parallel, if before such 
relinquishment the registered voters who reside in such portion as of 
the date of the proposal of this amendment vote, under procedures 
established by the Congress, by at least a two-thirds majority, in 
favor of the full incorporation of such portion into Canada, and if 
contemporaneous with such relinquishment such portion is so 
incorporated and the residents of such portion as of the date of the 
proposal of this amendment are granted permanent dual citizenship of 
the United States and Canada.''.
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