This is a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
1. Marriage is defined as a contract between consenting persons of either gender, who have attained the age of eighteen years, to join together as a family unit, which provides for the equitable conservation of property, welfare of the parties thereto and their children, and preservation of the civil and human rights of the parties, and which shall have been solemnized before witnesses according to law.
2. Neither Congress nor the legislatures of the several states, nor any secular or civil governing body within them, may enact any legislation or rule infringing on the right of any person to enter into or dissolve any marriage contract.
3. No contract of marriage shall create any condition of immunity under the law.
4. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the several States, as provided herein.
Revised 7/4/2011: Edited to make non-immunity provision a paragraph.
