[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 736 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 736

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
     clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate 
corporations, limited liability companies, and other corporate entities 
established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign 
                                 state.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 11, 2019

  Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
     clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate 
corporations, limited liability companies, and other corporate entities 
established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign 
                                 state.

    Be it enacted 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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The rights enumerated in this Constitution and other 
rights retained by the people shall be the rights of natural persons.
    ``Section 2. As used in this Constitution, the terms `people', 
`person', and `citizen' shall not include a corporation, a limited 
liability company, or any other corporate entity established by the 
laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state.
    ``Section 3. A corporate entity described in section 2 shall be 
subject to such regulation as the people, through representatives in 
Congress and State representatives, may determine reasonable, 
consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this 
Constitution.
    ``Section 4. Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to 
limit the rights enumerated in this Constitution and other rights 
retained by the people, which are unalienable.''.
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