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<resolution public-private="public" resolution-stage="Introduced-in-Senate" resolution-type="constitutional-amendment" star-print="no-star-print">
	<form>
		<distribution-code display="yes">IIA</distribution-code>
		<congress display="yes">110th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session display="yes">1st Session</session>
		<legis-num>S. J. RES. 11</legis-num>
		<current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>
		<action display="yes">
			<action-date date="20070329">March 29, 2007</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="S017">Mr. Byrd</sponsor> (for himself,
			 <cosponsor name-id="S176">Mr. Rockefeller</cosponsor>,
			 <cosponsor name-id="S290">Mr. Chambliss</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S136">Mr. Cochran</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S292">Mrs.
			 Dole</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S236">Mr. Inhofe</cosponsor>,
			 <cosponsor name-id="S203">Mr. Lott</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="S305">Mr. Isakson</cosponsor>) introduced the following joint
			 resolution; which was read twice and referred to the
			 <committee-name committee-id="SSJU00">Committee on the
			 Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc>
		</action>
		<legis-type>JOINT RESOLUTION</legis-type>
		<official-title display="yes">Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
		  of the United States to clarify that the Constitution neither prohibits
		  voluntary prayer nor requires prayer in schools.</official-title>
	</form>
	<resolution-body>
		<section display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="S1" section-type="undesignated-section"><enum></enum><text>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 by the Congress:</text>
			<quoted-block id="id723589076583038736" style="constitutional-amendment">
				<constitution-article id="idAE7509260972467264092629"><enum>—</enum>
					<section id="id746584869376347636034" section-type="undesignated-section"><text>Nothing in this Constitution,
				including any amendment to this Constitution, shall be construed to prohibit
				voluntary prayer or require prayer in a public school, or to prohibit voluntary
				prayer or require prayer at a public school extracurricular
				activity.</text>
					</section></constitution-article><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
		</section></resolution-body>
</resolution>
