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 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FIRST SESSION, NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right to vote to citizens eighteen years of age or older.

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 seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress: "ARTICLE

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1. The rig'ht of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. "SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." "SECTION

CARL

Speaker of the House of A L L E N J.

President

ALBERT

Representatives, ELLENDER

of the Senate pro

Tempore.

1 certify that this Joint Resolution originated in the Senate. FRANCIS R.

VALEO

Secretary, 825

[s, j. Res. 7]

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