Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Federal Budget: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 621 pages |
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... receipts and outlays , 1789-1979 --- Twenty - eight State legislatures which have passed balanced budget Page 8 14 468 163 164 354 362 90 98 amendment resolutions__ . Senate Joint Resolution 18 .. Uhler , Lewis K .: Testimony ... Van ...
... receipts and outlays , 1789-1979 --- Twenty - eight State legislatures which have passed balanced budget Page 8 14 468 163 164 354 362 90 98 amendment resolutions__ . Senate Joint Resolution 18 .. Uhler , Lewis K .: Testimony ... Van ...
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... receipts or revenues , there will no longer be a need for Washington to monetize its debt - at the expense of the soundness of the currency , or a need to borrow from the capital markets- at the expense of the investment needs of the ...
... receipts or revenues , there will no longer be a need for Washington to monetize its debt - at the expense of the soundness of the currency , or a need to borrow from the capital markets- at the expense of the investment needs of the ...
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... receipts , shall be placed on the calendar of each House for at least 7 calendar days prior to consideration . The purpose is simply to draw the maximum amount of attention each year to a single vote in which the balanced budget is at ...
... receipts , shall be placed on the calendar of each House for at least 7 calendar days prior to consideration . The purpose is simply to draw the maximum amount of attention each year to a single vote in which the balanced budget is at ...
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... receipts would be determined , and if those outlays exceed the income , then a calculation would be made and a surtax on corporate and individual income would be levied . An additional tax would be levied for the amount estimated to be ...
... receipts would be determined , and if those outlays exceed the income , then a calculation would be made and a surtax on corporate and individual income would be levied . An additional tax would be levied for the amount estimated to be ...
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... receipts and expenditures in balance . Now , let me tell you , I handled the appropriation bill for the Department of Defense , and I'm sure that I lean in favor of most of those items , but I don't think that the national defense ...
... receipts and expenditures in balance . Now , let me tell you , I handled the appropriation bill for the Department of Defense , and I'm sure that I lean in favor of most of those items , but I don't think that the national defense ...
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Page 227 - It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar or novel and even shocking ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.
Page 200 - Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies ; but upon a combination of these, with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs.
Page 64 - Such term does not include authority to insure or guarantee the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government.
Page 75 - ... or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of...
Page 448 - English language. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled 3 (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the fol4 lowing article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitu5 tion of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents 6 and purposes as part of the Constitution...
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Page 74 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the amendment of the Articles of Union whensoever it shall seem necessary, and that the assent of the National Legislature ought not to be required thereto.
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Page 74 - The State Legislatures will not apply for alterations but with a view to increase their own powers. The National Legislature will be the first to perceive and will be most sensible to the necessity of amendments, and ought also to be empowered, whenever two thirds of each branch should concur to call a Convention.
Page 340 - Chairman, may I thank the chairman and the members of the committee for their consideration.