[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 109 (Monday, July 14, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H6216-H6217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. DEUTCH:
       H.J. Res. 119.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article V of the Constitution: The Congress, whenever two 
     thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose 
     amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of 
     the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall 
     call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either 
     case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of 
     this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three 
     fourths of the several states or by conventions in three 
     fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification 
     may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment 
     which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight 
     hundred and eight shall in

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     any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth 
     section of the first article; and that no state, without its 
     consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the 
     Senate.

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