[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 15 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 15

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 20 years.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 2003

  Mr. Hatch 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 make 
  eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United 
                      States citizen for 20 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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. A person who is a citizen of the United States, who 
has been for 20 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 native born citizen of the United 
States.
    ``Section 2. This article shall not take effect unless it has been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of 
three-fourths of the several States not later than 7 years from the 
date of its submission to the States by the Congress.''.
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