Unratified and Proposed Amendments

[specific_name]

Which unratified amendment do you think should have been ratified? Among the proposed amendments which should have seen approved by congress?

If you can't remember any, here's a list of some:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

I'll give my opinion a little later on.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Titles of Nobility Amendment (1810)
Child Labor Amendment (1924)
Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment (2004, with 30 years instead of 20)

[dead0man]

The Ludlow Amendment would have made Iraq (and nearly every other war since 1941) much harder to pull off by forcing a popular vote on any war where we were not attacked.

The Bricker Amendment is along the same lines except it deals with treaties.

[specific_name]

The Ludlow Amendment would have made Iraq (and nearly every other war since 1941) much harder to pull off by forcing a popular vote on any war where we were not attacked.

The Bricker Amendment is along the same lines except it deals with treaties.

That's interesting, about the Ludlow Amendment. I have a feeling the course of history would have been very different if that had been effect. Not necessarily fewer wars though, perhaps the federal government would have had to work much harder to appeal to popular sentiment. I could image some kind of populist demagogue type scenarios occurring, if you know what I'm getting at. An interesting idea, but I can see the potential for danger.   

[DWPerry]

TONA
Congressional Apportionment Amendment
Liberty Amendment
Human Life Amendment
Balanced Budget Amendment

Other Amendments without "names"
Repeal Birthright Citizenship
Repeal the 16th Amendment
Repeal the 17th Amendment

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The Ludlow Amendment would have made Iraq (and nearly every other war since 1941) much harder to pull off by forcing a popular vote on any war where we were not attacked.

The Bricker Amendment is along the same lines except it deals with treaties.

I think both of those bill restrict the executive too much, especially the Bricker Amendment.

[Frodo]

I support the:

Balanced Budget Amendment

Whitehurst Amendment: Section 1. Nothing in this Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdication, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.

Bricker Amendment

Titles of Nobility Amendment

Continuity of Government Amendment

[Frodo]

The Ludlow Amendment would have made Iraq (and nearly every other war since 1941) much harder to pull off by forcing a popular vote on any war where we were not attacked.

If the amendment had instead read that the United States could not go to war without a prior (and explicit) declaration of war by Congress, I would have supported it. 

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I suppose I could support a Balanced Budget Amendment, but I can't support anything to hamstring the President in regards to foreign policy (Bricker and Ludlow).

[specific_name]

I suppose I could support a Balanced Budget Amendment, but I can't support anything to hamstring the President in regards to foreign policy (Bricker and Ludlow).

I agree with you on the Bricker and Ludlow Amendments, it would be a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Why would anyone support the Titles of Nobility Amendment? It is 100% irrelevant today.

[DWPerry]

I support the:

Balanced Budget Amendment

Whitehurst Amendment: Section 1. Nothing in this Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdication, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.

Bricker Amendment

Titles of Nobility Amendment

Continuity of Government Amendment

Read this about the COGA
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul108.html