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Recording of the debate in the House of Representatives on the 27th Amendment on C-SPAN; Harvard Professor Jane Mansbridge podcast discussing the connection between the 27th Amendment and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment; Gregory Watson's Fight for the 27th Amendment (The Daily Show, interview with Michael Kosta, published to YouTube on May ...
Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers writes this regular civics education guest opinion column about the U.S. Constitution.
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.
Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (2004), which abolished Irish citizenship by birth Constitution (Amendment No. 27) Act 1936 , which amended the Constitution of the Irish Free State so as to abolish the office of Governor-General, and removed all direct references to the King
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Some proposed amendments are introduced over and over again in different sessions of Congress. It is also common for a number of identical resolutions to be offered on issues that have widespread public and congressional support. Since 1789, Congress has sent 33 constitutional amendments to the states for ratification. Of these, 27 have been ...
Does the article need a full list and description of the 27 ratified amendments? There's already a list article here describing them. This article is a list of proposed amendments, while including descriptions of the 6 unratified amendments is definitely appropriate; the 27 ratified amendments are no longer proposed amendments and kind of off ...
Meiklejohn was known as an advocate of First Amendment freedoms and was a member of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). [8] He was a notable proponent of the link between freedom of speech and democracy. He argued that the concept of democracy is that of self-government by the people.