Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. The amendment's advocates say that it will allow parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, protected from federal interference, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Amendment was first proposed during the 110th Congress as House Joint ...
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. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
Of the six constitutional amendments on Floridian ballots on Tuesday, only two of them succeeded. Among the amendments that failed were Amendments 3 and 4, which would have expanded Floridian ...
This includes both expired amendments, those for which the time period set for their consideration ran out, and still pending amendments, those sent to the states without a ratification deadline. Proposals to amend the United States Constitution introduced in but not approved by Congress should be included in Category:Proposed amendments to the ...
Floridians on Nov. 5 decide on six proposed amendments to the state constitution. Some are on momentous or at least well-publicized issues, brought to the ballot by well-supported public petitions ...
Amendment 6 - Public Campaign Financing - FAILED Public funding would end for candidates for governor/lieutenant governor, attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner ...
Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states and are not part of the Constitution. Four of these amendments are still technically open and pending, one is closed and has failed by its own terms, and one is closed and has failed by the terms of the resolution proposing it.
This would be the shortest amendment in our Constitution, 13 words: “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.” That is the language of the proposed “Keep ...