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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.
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (Random House, 1991) (ISBN 0-394-58774-X) The Supreme Court and How It Works: The Story of the Gideon Case (Random House Children's Books, 1966) (ISBN 0-394-91861-4) Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Basic Books, 2010) (ISBN 0465039170) Co-author
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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The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
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.
Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433 (1939), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which clarified that when proposing for the ratification of an amendment to the United States Constitution, pursuant to Article V thereof, if the Congress of the United States chooses not to set a deadline by which the proposed amendment must be acted upon by the requisite three-fourths of state ...