Proposed Constitutional Amendments Since 1991

The information below is for reference for a post that I am working on and will be referring to in future posts. It is proposed Constitutional Amendments since 1991.

109th Congress (2005-2006)

• To specifically permit prayer at school meetings and ceremonies
• To allow non-natural born citizens to become President if they have been a citizen for 20 years
• To specifically allow Congress to regulate the amount of personal funds a candidate to public office can expend in a campaign
• To ensure that apportionment of Representatives be set by counting only citizens
• To make the filibuster in the Senate a part of the Constitution
• To provide for continuity of government in case of a catastrophic event

108th Congress (2003-2004)

• To lower the age restriction on Representatives and Senators from 30 and 25 respectively to 21
• To ensure that citizens of U.S. territories and commonwealths can vote in presidential elections
• To guarantee the right to use the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and the national motto
• To restrict marriage in all states to be between a man and a woman
• To remove any protection any court may find for child pornography
• To allow Congress to pass laws for emergency replenishment of its membership should more than a quarter of either house be killed
• To place Presidential nominees immediately into position, providing the Senate with 120 days to reject the nominee before the appointment is automatically permanent

107th Congress (2001-2002)

• Calling for the repeal of the 8th Amendment and its replacement with wording prohibiting incarceration for minor traffic offenses
• To specify that progressive income taxes must be used
• To specify a right to "equal high quality" health care
• To limit pardons granted between October 1 and January 21 of any presidential election year
• To require a balanced budget without use of Social Security Trust Fund monies
• To allow for any person who has been a citizen of the United States for twenty years or more to be eligible for the Presidency
• To force the members of Congress and the President to forfeit their salary, on a per diem basis, for every day past the end of the fiscal year that a budget for that year remains unpassed

106th Congress (1999-2000)

• To provide a new method for proposing amendments to the Constitution, where two-thirds of all state legislatures could start the process
• To allow Congress to enact campaign spending limits on federal elections
• To allow Congress to enact campaign spending limits on state elections
• To declare that life begins at conception and that the 5th and 14th amendments apply to unborn children
• To prohibit courts from instructing any state or lower government to levy or raise taxes

105th Congress (1997-1998)

• To force a national referendum for any deficit spending
• To provide for the reconfirmation of federal judges every 12 years
• To prohibit the early release of convicted criminals
• To establish the right to a home
• To define the legal effect of international treaties
• To clarify that the Constitution neither prohibits nor requires school prayer
• To establish judicial terms of office

104th Congress (1995-1996)

• To clarify the meaning of the 2nd Amendment
• To provide for the reconfirmation of federal judges every 6 years
• To force a two-thirds vote for any bill that raises taxes
• To repeal the 16th Amendment and specifically prohibit an income tax
• To provide for removal of any officer of the U.S. convicted of a felony
• To permit the States to set term limits for their Representatives and Senators

103rd Congress (1993-1994)

• To allow a Presidential pardon of an individual only after said individual has been tried and convicted of a crime
• To allow Congress to pass legislation to allow the Supreme Court to remove federal judges from office
• To provide for the reconfirmation of federal judges every 10 years
• To provide for the recall of Representatives and Senators
• To remove automatic citizenship of children born in the U.S. to non-resident parents
• To enable or repeal laws by popular vote
• To define a process to allow amendments to the Constitution be proposed by a popular ("grass-roots") effort
• To force a three-fifths vote for any bill that raises taxes
• To prohibit retroactive taxation
• To provide for run-off Presidential elections if no one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote
• To prohibit abortion
• To bar imposition on the States of unfunded federal mandates

102nd Congress (1991-1992)

• To disallow the desecration of the U.S. Flag
• To allow a line-item veto in appropriations bills
• To expand the term of Representatives to four years
• To provide for direct election of the President and Vice-President (eliminating the Electoral College)
• To force a balanced budget
• To prohibit involuntary bussing of students
• To make English the official language of the United States
• To set term limits on Representatives and Senators
• To repeal the 22nd Amendment (removing Presidential term limits)
• To guarantee a right to employment opportunity for all citizens
• To grant protections to unborn children
• To provide for "moments of silence" in public schools
• To allow Congress to regulate expenditures for and contributions to political campaigns
• To provide for the rights of crime victims
• To provide for access to medical care for all citizens
• To repeal the 2nd Amendment (right to bear arms)
• To prohibit the death penalty
• To protect the environment
• To repeal the 26th Amendment (granting the vote to 18-year olds) and granting the right to vote to 16-year olds
• To provide equal rights to men and women