[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 46 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 46

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 allow the several States to nullify a law or regulation of the United 
                                States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2011

  Mr. Griffith of Virginia 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 to 
 allow the several States to nullify a law or regulation of the United 
                                States.

    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--

    ``Whenever the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States 
approve resolutions to nullify the same law or executive regulation of 
the United States, such law or executive regulation shall be null and 
void and any portion of another law or executive regulation amended by 
the nullified law or executive regulation shall be deemed to read as if 
the repealed law or executive regulation had not been enacted.''.
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