[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 2 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 2

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 6, 2009

 Mr. Vitter 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 
    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, 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:

                              ``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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