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The '''Federal Marriage Amendment''' (FMA) is a proposed [[Constitutional amendment|amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] which would define [[marriage]] in the [[United States]] as a union of one [[man]] and one [[woman]]. The FMA also would prevent judicial extension of marriage-like rights to [[same-sex couple]]s or other unmarried persons, as well as preventing people from having multiple spouses. The most recent vote on the proposed amendment took place in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] on [[June 7]], [[2006]]. The amendment failed to pass; of the 60 votes required to invoke the [[cloture]] motion, 49 senators voted for putting the amendment to vote and 48 voted against. (When proposing constitutional amendments, two-thirds of each house must pass the proposal.)

==Current law==