Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
This resolution proposes to amend the U.S. Constitution to require that every Representative and Senator be a natural born citizen. If two-thirds of both the House and Senate approve it and three-fourths of the state legislatures ratify it within seven years, it would become part of the Constitution. The text includes a grandfather clause allowing current non-natural-born members to finish their terms but barring them from serving again afterward.
Constitutional amendments must be approved by two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and then ratified by three-fourths of the states; this proposal sets a seven-year deadline for state ratification. Proposed amendments do not go to the President for signature.
This joint resolution proposes a Constitutional amendment requiring that only natural born citizens may serve as U.S. Representatives or Senators.
It preserves service for any current Representative or Senator who is not natural born until the end of that member's term, but bars them from subsequent service.
The amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures within seven years to become effective.
Requires rare bipartisan supermajorities and 3/4 of states to ratify; narrow scope but high political controversy makes success unlikely.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly proposes the specific constitutional change (adding a natural-born-citizen requirement for Representatives and Senators) and provides the standard ratification timetable plus a narrow transitional rule; however, it leaves important definitional, enforcement, and implementation questions unaddressed.
Progressives emphasize exclusion and harm to representation
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Progressives emphasize exclusion and harm to representation
Likely to oppose the amendment as exclusionary and harmful to representative diversity.
Views it as unnecessary legal change that reduces opportunities for naturalized Americans to serve in Congress.
Cautiously skeptical: worries about precedent, divisiveness, and talent pool effects.
Might consider narrower, less constitutional approaches to foreign-influence concerns.
Likely to view the amendment favorably as a national-loyalty safeguard.
Sees it as a legitimate Constitutional fix to ensure high officeholders have birthright citizenship.
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Requires rare bipartisan supermajorities and 3/4 of states to ratify; narrow scope but high political controversy makes success unlikely.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize exclusion and harm to representation
Requires rare bipartisan supermajorities and 3/4 of states to ratify; narrow scope but high political controversy makes success unlikely.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly proposes the specific constitutional change (adding a natural-born-citizen requirement for Representatives and Senators) and provides the standar…
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