[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 39 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 39

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                         relating to marriage.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2005

   Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California (for himself, Mr. Bachus, Mr. 
   Stearns, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Alexander, Mr. 
      Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Davis of Tennessee, Mr. Taylor of 
     Mississippi, and Mr. Gohmert) 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 
                         relating to marriage.

    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. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of a 
legal union of one man and one woman.
    ``Section 2. No court of the United States or of any State shall 
have jurisdiction to determine whether this Constitution or the 
constitution of any State requires that the legal incidents of marriage 
be conferred upon any union other than a legal union between one man 
and one woman.
    ``Section 3. No State shall be required to give effect to any 
public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State 
concerning a union between persons of the same sex that is treated as a 
marriage, or as having the legal incidents of marriage, under the laws 
of such other State.''.
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