Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to parental rights.

Constitutional Amendment - States that the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right.

Declares further that the parental right to direct education includes the right to choose public, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one's child.

States that neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest, as applied to the person, is of the highest order and not otherwise served.

Prohibits this article from being construed to apply to a parental action or decision that would end life.

Declares that no treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this amendment.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 50 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 50

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                      relating to parental rights.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2013

  Mr. Meadows (for himself, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. 
Bonner, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Graves of Georgia, 
     Mr. Coble, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Wolf, Mr. 
Westmoreland, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Lamborn, Mrs. Bachmann, 
 Mr. Huelskamp, Mr. Bridenstine, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Upton, Mr. Miller of 
 Florida, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Harris, Mr. Forbes, 
    Mr. Hunter, Mr. Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. 
 Stutzman, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Barton, Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. 
  Neugebauer, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. 
    Fortenberry, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Salmon, and Mr. Cole) 
 introduced the following joint resolution; which was 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 parental rights.

    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. The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, 
education, and care of their children is a fundamental right.
    ``Section 2. The parental right to direct education includes the 
right to choose public, private, religious, or home schools, and the 
right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one's child.
    ``Section 3. Neither the United States nor any State shall infringe 
these rights without demonstrating that its governmental interest as 
applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served.
    ``Section 4. This article shall not be construed to apply to a 
parental action or decision that would end life.
    ``Section 5. No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of 
international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply 
to the rights guaranteed by this article.''.
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