[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 47 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 47

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to make 
  eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United 
                    States citizen for twenty years.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 2, 2001

Mr. Frank (for himself and Mr. Hoekstra) 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 make 
  eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United 
                    States citizen for twenty years.

    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--

    ``A person who is a citizen of the United States, who has been for 
twenty years a citizen of the United States, and who is otherwise 
eligible to the Office of President, is not ineligible to that Office 
by reason of not being a natural born citizen of the United States.''.
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