CONGRESSIONAL PETITION SUBMISSION FORM

 

TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

OFFICIAL PETITION TO BOTH HOUSES OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS

Submission Form directing the United States Congress

to send the Traditional Marriage Amendment, under Article V of the United States Constitution, to the Several States for ratification. 

The first paragraph of the United States Constitution reads:   " of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."  ARTICLE IX of the AMENDMENTS to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the RIGHT TO of the people to preserve Traditional Marriage in America: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." I hereby instruct each member of Both Houses of Congress, according to ARTICLE V of the U.S. Constitution and AMENDMENTS I, IX, and X to send to the State Legislatures for RATIFICATION the following proposed AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution entitled the "TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT":

 

Text of the proposed

TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

ARTICLE 28 (or alternate number to be assigned by Congress)

 Section 1. Traditional Marriage consists of one man and one woman united together in matrimony and who have taken marital vows to and before each other and before a licensed official who is duly appointed to this ministration by the State. 

Section 2.  No alternative marriage or union between two or more individuals, no matter how structured or organized, shall be legally recognized as a valid Traditional Marriage by any jurisdiction or State. 

Section 3. To secure the rights of citizens including those individuals united together in Traditional Marriages, it is hereby prohibited for any jurisdiction or State to recognize any alternative marriage as a legal marriage or legal union.  It is further prohibited for any jurisdiction or State to bestow on individuals living in alternative marriages any of the rights and entitlements given to individuals in Traditional Marriages.  This Article shall be enforceable in the United States which shall include the Several States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the territories and possessions of the United States.

Section 4. Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provisions of the Article.

 

 

OFFICIAL REDRESS PETITION TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS

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