A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 4 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 4

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
 authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag 
                         of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 16, 2003

 Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Miller, Mr. 
  Campbell, Mr. McCain, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Craig, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Lugar, 
Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Bond, Mr. Lott, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Dayton, 
  Mr. Sessions, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Bunning, Mr. 
 Allard, Ms. Collins, Mr. Crapo, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Frist, Mr. Grassley, 
  Mr. Hagel, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Warner, Mr. Allen, Mr. 
   Brownback, Mr. Burns, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Santorum, Mr. 
   Shelby, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Graham of South Carolina, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. 
 Talent, and Mr. Alexander) 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 Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag 
                         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 7 years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical 
desecration of the flag of the United States.''.
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