Constitutional Amendment - Revision history

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EvanW: Started on descriptions of amendments.

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EvanW: Listed amendments - is this the best place? If not, put elsewhere and revert.

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Listed amendments - is this the best place? If not, put elsewhere and revert.

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GregL: New page: A '''Constitutional Amendment''', in the United States, is an amendment to the United States Constitution or to one of the constitutions of the fifty states. Amendments to the Uni...

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New page: A '''Constitutional Amendment''', in the United States, is an amendment to the United States Constitution or to one of the constitutions of the fifty states. Amendments to the Uni...

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A '''Constitutional Amendment''', in the [[United States]], is an amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] or to one of the constitutions of the fifty states.

Amendments to the United States Constitution are covered in Article V as follows:

"''The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.''"

Currently, there have been 27 amendments to the United States Constitution. The first ten of these are known as the [[Bill of Rights]].

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	# DC Representation Amendment, 1978, would have given the [[District of Columbia]] voting representation in Congress.		# DC Representation Amendment, 1978, would have given the [[District of Columbia]] voting representation in Congress.

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 # [[Congressional Apportionment Amendment]], 1789, would have regulated the size of Congressional districts.
-# Titles of Nobility Amendment, 1810, would have revoked the [[citizenship]] of anyone who accepted a foreign [[title of nobility]].
+# [[Titles of Nobility Amendment]], 1810, would have revoked the [[citizenship]] of anyone who accepted a foreign [[title of nobility]].
 # [[Corwin Amendment]], 1861, would have prohibited the government from abolishing slavery.
 # Child Labor Amendment, 1926, would have allowed the government to regulate the labor of minors.

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 # Child Labor Amendment, 1926, would have allowed the government to regulate the labor of minors.
 # [[Equal Rights Amendment]], 1972, would have prohibited the government from differentiating between men and women.
-# DC Representation Amendment, 1978, would have given the [[District of Columbia]] representation in Congress.
+# DC Representation Amendment, 1978, would have given the [[District of Columbia]] voting representation in Congress.
 [[category:law]]  [[Category:United_States_Constitution]]

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 ===Unratified===
-# First article of the Bill of Rights, 1789, would have regulated the size of Congressional districts.
+# [[Congressional Apportionment Amendment]], 1789, would have regulated the size of Congressional districts.
 # Titles of Nobility Amendment, 1810, would have revoked the [[citizenship]] of anyone who accepted a foreign [[title of nobility]].
 # [[Corwin Amendment]], 1861, would have prohibited the government from abolishing slavery.

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 # [[Eleventh Amendment]]
 # [[Twelfth Amendment]]
-# [[Thirteenth Amendment]]
+# [[Thirteenth Amendment]] abolished [[slavery]].
-# [[Fourteenth Amendment]]
+# [[Fourteenth Amendment]] extended the [[Bill of Rights]] to apply against the states.
-# [[Fifteenth Amendment]]
+# [[Fifteenth Amendment]] gave [[African-Americans]] the [[sufferage|right to vote]].
-# [[Sixteenth Amendment]]
+# [[Sixteenth Amendment]] allowed an [[income tax]].
-# [[Seventeenth Amendment]]
+# [[Seventeenth Amendment]] had [[United States Senate|senators]] be elected by the people, instead of by the state legislatures.
-# [[Eighteenth Amendment]]
+# [[Eighteenth Amendment]] prohibited [[alcohol]]ic beverages.  This amendment was repealed by the [[Twenty-First Amendment]].
-# [[Nineteenth Amendment]]
+# [[Nineteenth Amendment]] gave women the [[sufferage|right to vote]].
 # [[Twentieth Amendment]]
-# [[Twenty-First Amendment]]
+# [[Twenty-First Amendment]] repealed the [[Eighteenth Amendment]].  This is the only time an amendment was specifically repealed by name.
 # [[Twenty-Second Amendment]]
 # [[Twenty-Third Amendment]]
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 # [[Twenty-Fifth Amendment]]
 # [[Twenty-Sixth Amendment]]
-# [[Twenty-Seventh Amendment]]
+# [[Twenty-Seventh Amendment]] prohibited Congress from immediately raising its own pay.  This amendment was originally proposed as part of the Bill of Rights but only ratified in 1992.
 ===Unratified===
 # First article of the Bill of Rights, 1789, would have regulated the size of Congressional districts.
-# Titles of Nobility Amendment, 1810
+# Titles of Nobility Amendment, 1810, would have revoked the [[citizenship]] of anyone who accepted a foreign [[title of nobility]].
 # [[Corwin Amendment]], 1861, would have prohibited the government from abolishing slavery.
 # Child Labor Amendment, 1926, would have allowed the government to regulate the labor of minors.
-# Equal Rights Amendment, 1972
+# [[Equal Rights Amendment]], 1972, would have prohibited the government from differentiating between men and women.
-# DC Statehood Amendment, 1978
+# DC Representation Amendment, 1978, would have given the [[District of Columbia]] representation in Congress.
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+[[category:law]]  [[Category:United_States_Constitution]]

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 "''The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.''"
-Currently, there have been 27 amendments to the United States Constitution.  The first ten of these are known as the [[Bill of Rights]].
+Twenty-seven amendments to the United States Constitution have been officially ratified according to these provisions.  The first ten of these are known as the [[Bill of Rights]].  An additional six amendments have been proposed by Congress but have not been ratified by three-fourths of the states.
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	Currently, there have been 27 amendments to the United States Constitution. The first ten of these are known as the [[Bill of Rights]].		Currently, there have been 27 amendments to the United States Constitution. The first ten of these are known as the [[Bill of Rights]].
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