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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. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
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 ...
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Eighteenth ...
2. No amendment to the Constitution may take place when extraordinary measures are in effect. 3. A proposed amendment is approved by not less than two-thirds of all members of the Assembly. 4. The Assembly may decide, by two-thirds of all its members, that the proposed constitutional amendments be voted on in a referendum.
Note: This category consists of amendments to the United States Constitution approved by Congress and proposed to the states for consideration but not (yet) ratified by the required number of states to become part of the Constitution.
Each side speaks with passion and fire about rights and law and the Constitution, the meaning of “the right to bear arms” and “a well-regulated militia,” and what these terms mean in the ...
The controversial measure, known as Amendment 2, asked voters if they wanted to change the state constitution to let the legislature spend tax dollars on educational opportunities outside the ...
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...