[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 40 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 40

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 guarantee the right to use and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the 
                      Flag and the national motto.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2003

   Mr. Pickering (for himself, Mr. Turner of Texas, Mr. Norwood, Mr. 
    Pitts, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, Mr. Wamp, Mrs. Capito, Mr. 
  Ballenger, and Mr. Barton of Texas) 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 
 guarantee the right to use and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the 
                      Flag and the national motto.

    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 --

    ``Section 1. The first article of amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States shall not be construed to prohibit the recitation of 
the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, which shall be, `I pledge 
allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the 
Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with 
liberty and justice for all.'.
    ``Section 2. The first article of amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States shall not be construed to prohibit the recitation or 
use of the national motto, which shall be, `In God we trust'.''.
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