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PAG LIN 1 0 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 5 1 0 1 0 A JOINT RESOLUTION 1 0 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF 1 0 IOWA RELATING TO THE EQUALITY OF RIGHTS OF MEN AND WOMEN 1 0 UNDER THE LAW. 1 0 1 0 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 0 1 1 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of 1 2 the State of Iowa is proposed. 1 3 Section 1 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of 1 4 Iowa, is amended to read as follows: 1 5 RIGHTS OF PERSONS. Section 1. All men and women are, by 1 6 nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights - 1 7 among which are those of enjoying and defending life and 1 8 liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and 1 9 pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. 1 10 Sec. 2. The foregoing proposed amendment, having been 1 11 adopted and agreed to by the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, 1 12 1995 Session, thereafter duly published, and now adopted and 1 13 agreed to by the Seventy-seventh General Assembly in this 1 14 joint resolution, shall be submitted to the people of the 1 15 State of Iowa at the general election in November of the year 1 16 nineteen hundred ninety-eight in the manner required by the 1 17 Constitution of the State of Iowa and the laws of the State of 1 18 Iowa. 20 30 40 50 RON J. CORBETT 60 Speaker of the House 70 80 90 100 MARY E. KRAMER 110 President of the Senate 120 130 I hereby certify that this resolution originated in the 1 30 House and is known as House Joint Resolution 5, Seventy-seventh 1 30 General Assembly. 150 160 170 180 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 190 Chief Clerk of the House
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