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  2. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress. [8] Proposals have covered numerous topics, but none made in recent decades have become part of the Constitution. Historically, most died in the congressional committees to which they were assigned. Since 1999, only about ...

  3. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...

  4. This amendment, sometimes called the "Madison Amendment", would prevent a "runaway convention" from drastically altering or replacing the U.S. Constitution. [62] Various proposals were made by Republican members of Congress to base congressional apportionments on the number of citizens in a state rather than residents following the Evenwel

  5. Talk : List of amendments to the Constitution of the United ...

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    In the section "Synopsis of each ratified amendment", the description of the second amendment is "Protects the right to keep and bear arms." That is not a synopsis, it is an interpretation. A popular one, but an interpretation nonetheless. It is extremely awkwardly worded, and open to broad interpretation, and, therefor, controversy.

  6. Vote yes or no on Florida Amendments? What Amendment 6 ... - AOL

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    Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Voters will be faced with 6 constitutional amendment proposals on the ballot.

  7. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    At the time it was sent to the states for ratification, an affirmative vote by ten states would have made this amendment operational. In 1791 and 1792, when Vermont and Kentucky joined the Union, the number climbed to twelve. Thus, the amendment remained one state shy of the number needed for it to become part of the Constitution.

  8. Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.

  9. The abortion rights amendment made Michigan's ballot ... - AOL

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    The Reproductive Freedom for All amendment gives Michigan voters a chance to weigh in on the future of abortion rights in the state this fall. The abortion rights amendment made Michigan's ballot ...