Talk:Unsuccessful attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution

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Regarding the Corwin Amendment: This would be extremely interesting in the courts, as the Supreme Court has ruled (please excuse my inability to cit a given case at the moment) that Congress cannot, by congressional enactment, limit the powers of future congresses. It would be very interesting to see if the Supreme Court would rule in a like manner as to constitutional amendments.

I imagine the only way this would be valid would be if the amendment revoked the amendment process entirely. Considering the effect this would have on the Constitution, and the fact that it would almost necessitate the creation of a new constitution, it would seem reasonable to assume a court would deem this constitutional hari-kari, and decide it to be void.

Just some food for thought.

Bricker Amendment

For some time I have been working on revisions to the Bricker Amendment article. I finally posted it and have a PR at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bricker Amendment/archive1. I'd welcome comments. I know all those references may seem extravagant, but I'm hoping to get it as an FA and those voters want lots of footnotes. PedanticallySpeaking 16:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Remove statement from child labor amendment

Unlikely since it was proposed in 1924 and Roosevelt wasn't elected until 1932.

This proposed amendment was created because of the Supreme Court's decisions finding many of the New Deal laws proposed by the Roosevelt administration to be Unconstitutional.

Ratification date

The U.S. Constitution was "adopted" by a convention of the states on September 17, 1787. The document provides that it would become established as between (among) the states so ratifying upon ratification of nine states. See Article VII. The ninth state to ratify was New Hampshire -- on June 21, 1788. The official version of the Constitution as published by the United States Government printing office lists June 21, 1788 as the date of "ratification" of the Constitution, even though other states obviously ratified it on later dates. Yours, Famspear 03:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

this article should either be deleted or merged with the article "list of proposed amendments to the united states constitution". I would recommend limited merging, and largely support deleting the "unsuccessful attempts..." article since it isnt as well organized and is largely redundant to the information in "list of proposed...".

Typos

There are typos on this page, some obvious misspellings and errors.

I do not know what the accurate text should be.