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States within seven years after the date of its submission 
for ratification: 
‘‘ARTICLE — 
‘‘SECTION 1. The people shall have the right to enact 
any law which the Congress has authority to pass, and 
to repeal any provision of law passed by Congress which 
has become law, except that the people shall not have the 
right to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, 
make rules concerning captures on land and water, or call 
forth the militia. 
‘‘SECTION 2. A petition proposing the enactment of 
a law, or the repeal of a provision of law, shall be sub-
mitted to an officer of the Government of the United 
States whom the Congress shall designate by law. Each 
petition shall contain the text of the proposed law, or, in 
the case of a proposed repeal of a provision of law, the 
text of the provision of law that shall cease to be effective 
if repealed under this article. Each petition shall be signed 
by at least 3 percent of the whole number of people, in 
each of at least 10 States, who voted in the most recent 
election for President, or for electors for President, occur-
ring before the date on which the petition is submitted 
to the officer designated by Congress, and the total num-
ber of signatures on such petition shall be at least 3 per-
cent of the whole number of people, from all of the several 
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States, who voted in such election. All such signatures 
shall be collected within the 18-month period ending on 
the date the petition is submitted to the officer designated 
by the Congress. 
‘‘Within 90 days after a petition is submitted to the 
officer designated by the Congress, such officer shall de-
termine the validity of the signatures contained in the pe-
tition. If the petition contains the required number of valid 
signatures, the officer shall certify the petition and shall 
direct the chief executive officer in each State to place a 
copy of the proposed law, or provision of law proposed to 
be repealed, contained in the petition on the ballot in the 
first election (other than an election to fill a vacancy) for 
Members of the House of Representatives which is held 
at least 120 days after such certification. The Congress 
shall by law establish procedures for the preparation and 
submission of any such petition and for the validation of 
signatures on such petition. 
‘‘SECTION 3. If a law or repeal proposed under this 
article receives a majority of the votes cast in three-fifths 
of the several States, the proposed law or repeal shall be 
introduced to the Congress by the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the 
Senate on the first day of the first session of Congress 
following the vote. 
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‘‘If Congress does not enact the proposed law or re-
peal, without amendment, before the end of one year and 
90 days after the first day of the first session of Congress 
following the vote, the officer to whom the petition was 
submitted shall direct the chief executive officer in each 
State again to place a copy of the proposed law, or provi-
sion of law proposed to be repealed, contained in the peti-
tion, together with any amended version approved by Con-
gress, on the ballot in the first election (other than an 
election to fill a vacancy) for Members of the House of 
Representatives which is held at least 120 days after such 
direction. 
‘‘If a law or repeal again placed on the ballot pursu-
ant to this article receives a majority of the votes cast 
in three-fifths of the several States, the proposed law or 
repeal shall be enacted and take effect according to its 
terms. 
‘‘No law, or repeal of a provision of law, which is en-
acted under this article shall be subject to approval of the 
President. 
‘‘The Congress may not, during the 2-year period be-
ginning on the date on which a law enacted by the people 
under this article takes effect, or the date on which a law 
repealed by the people under this article ceases to be effec-
tive, repeal or amend a law so enacted, or reenact any 
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part of a law so repealed, except by an affirmative vote 
of two-thirds of the Members of each House of Congress. 
‘‘SECTION 4. The people in each State voting under 
this article shall have the qualification requisite for elec-
tors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. 
The Congress shall by law prescribe the manner in which 
the results of the voting conducted under this article shall 
be ascertained and declared.’’. 
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