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This Joint Resolution proposes an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to establish a fixed limit on the number of justices serving on the Supreme Court of the United States, specifying that there shall be no more than nine justices. This means that Congress would be prevented from increasing the number of justices beyond this cap. The resolution also grants Congress the authority to enact laws to enforce this constitutional amendment. For this amendment to become part of the Constitution, it must be approved by two-thirds of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, and then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states within seven years of its proposal. This proposal comes in the context of historical debates and proposals regarding the size of the Supreme Court.