[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 5 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 5

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
    authorizing the Congress and the States to prohibit the act of 
   desecration of the flag of the United States and to set criminal 
                        penalties for that act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2005

   Mrs. Emerson 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 
    authorizing the Congress and the States to prohibit the act of 
   desecration of the flag of the United States and to set criminal 
                        penalties for that act.

    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 --

    ``The Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the act 
of desecration of the flag of the United States and to set criminal 
penalties for that act.''.
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