Only four states - Minnesota, Alaska, Florida and Texas - have laws or constitutional amendments mandating such recordings.

Warning on Amendment He warned that if Congress did not approve a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget, the states would call for a constitutional convention to do so.

When drug legislation comes to the floor of both houses, Republicans will try to force Democrats to cast risky votes on an amendment mandating the death penalty for drug czars.

These include a proposed constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget, and a line-item veto, a system under which a President could reject parts of a spending bill.

The constitution was made even more anticlerical in the period from 1934 to 1946, when an amendment mandating "socialist education" was in effect.

In his radio speech, the President reiterated his intention to seek a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget, a proposal that has repeatedly been rejected by Congress.

The people should put the heat on Congress to vote - "yes or no, up or down"- for a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget.

Mr. Reagan still wants a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget, but aides acknowledge that the idea is going nowhere.

To the Editor: "Unbalanced" (editorial, May 10) predicts terrible consequences if a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget were to be adopted.

The controversy over copyright arose because of an attempt to put in amendments mandating Internet Service Providers to enforce copyright.