Marriage Protection Amendment

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

Constitutional Amendment - Marriage Protection Amendment - Declares that: (1) marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman; and (2) neither the U.S. Constitution nor the constitution of any state shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents of marriage be conferred upon any other union.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 1 Introduced in Senate (IS)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 1

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                         relating to marriage.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2005

 Mr. Allard (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Lott, Mr. Enzi, Mr. DeMint, 
   Mr. Santorum, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Thune, Mr. 
 Alexander, Mr. Frist, Mr. Talent, Mr. Burr, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Kyl, 
  Mrs. Dole, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Isakson, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Hatch, Mr. 
   Roberts, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. Coburn) 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 
                         relating to marriage.

    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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage Protection 
Amendment'.
    ``Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of 
the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the 
constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage 
or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than 
the union of a man and a woman.''.
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