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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 57 — James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program

§ 4501. Purpose

Statutory text

It is the purpose of this chapter to establish the James Madison Fellowship Program which is designed to encourage graduate study of the American Constitution, its roots, its formation, its principles, and its development.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 99–500 § 101(b)(tVIII)(s802) · 100 Stat. 1783-39

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 4501

    (Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 802], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–76, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 802], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–76.)

    Unresolved: Pub. L. 99–500 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 802], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–76, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 802], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–76.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title

Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 801], , 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–76, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 801], , 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–76, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘James Madison Memorial Fellowship Act’.”

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 802], , 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–76, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 802], , 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–76.)

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