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Topic: Four Amendments That Almost Made it in the Constitution
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juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted March 22, 2013 10:06 AM
  
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Since the Bill of Rights and the first 10 amendments were ratified in the 1790s, only 17 amendments have run the gauntlet. And the 18th Amendment, which established Prohibition, was repealed.
In the past 221 years, four amendments have come close to becoming ratified.
The ERA was actually first proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party. It had been proposed on a regular basis in Congress for decades, but the ERA movement gathered steam in the 1960s.
The basic part of the amendment read, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
By 1972, the House and the Senate had approved the ERA, with apparently wide public support, and 30 states had signed on by 1973.
But an opposition movement led by Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative author and activist, helped block additional states from ratifying the ERA. The battles between Schlafly’s STOP ERA movement and the National Organization of Women (NOW) were very public.
The amendment passed by Congress had a seven-year ratification deadline, but Congress passed a controversial extension giving states until 1982 to ratify the amendment. Five states tried to rescind their approval, and the ERA never had more than 35 of the 38 states needed for ratification.
Another proposed amendment that came very close to becoming part of the Constitution was the Titles of Nobility Amendment, or TONA.
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katatonic
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posted March 22, 2013 12:12 PM
Interesting...so the era and child labour amendments weren't properly ratified? But they are still laws, correct?Then there is the persistent rumour that the income tax amendment wasn't ratified either...? IP: Logged |
juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted March 22, 2013 12:28 PM
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Originally posted by katatonic:
Interesting...so the era and child labour amendments weren't properly ratified? But they are still laws, correct?Then there is the persistent rumour that the income tax amendment wasn't ratified either...?
I`m trying to find the tax radification and am not having much success. Child labor laws are in effect but as I understand it, not an actual amendment. AG? ------------------
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katatonic
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posted March 22, 2013 01:03 PM
One of the interesting aspects of this is the persistent paranoid rumour that obama (and gw before him) amendmentwould somehow repeal the presidential term limits amendment...as if they could EVER get support from enough of the states to do so.IP: Logged | |
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