GENERAL SERVICES ADMINSTRATION RECEIVED 

MAR 23 1971  NARS  OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER [STAMPED IN RIGHT HAND MARGIN]

S. J. Res. 7

Ninety-second Congress of the United States of America [centered]

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the twenty-first day of January, 

one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one 

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 -- 

"SECTION 1. The right 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."

Carl Albert [signature]

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Allen J. Ellender [signature]