Unratified amendments

[Schmitz in 1972]

Congress has proposed 33 amendments of which 27 to date have been ratified. Two (The ERA and DC Voting Rights Amendment) have expired while the remaining four could technically still be ratified in the same manner the 27th was. Ignoring for the purposes the passed ratification deadlines of the last two, which of the six would you like to see ratified?

Text of the amendments

[Schmitz in 1972]

The first would have pretty much no effect since the current composition of congress in well over 200.

The second I really don't see anything potentially bad about it, but I wouldn't waste the time to pass it.

The most interesting one is the third (the slavery protection one). Since slavery has long been abolished, this amendment's only effect would be prohibiting amendments giving congress the power to interfere with other "domestic institutions" in states besides slavery. I believe that had this amendment been ratified, not only the 13th but the 18th and the unratified child labor one would have been unconstitutional. To prevent further disasterous experiments like prohibtions, I would actually be in favor of this one being passed. Of course, due to the pro-slavery stigma attached to it, this is never going to happen.

The fourth I'm very glad was not ratified, but it's interesting nonetheless because it shows that even as late as the 1920s congress knew it couldn't do outrageous things like regulating child labor without clear constitutional justification.

The fifth and sixth I'm glad were defeated, both being the ideas of crazy liberals.