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	FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Amendments
		The amendment was rejected by Georgia on July 24, 1919; by Alabama on September 22, 1919; by South Carolina on January 29, 1920; by Virginia on February 12, 1920; by Maryland on February 24, 1920; by Mississippi on March 29, 1920; by Louisiana on July 1, 1920.
		The amendment was rejected by a convention in the State of South Carolina, on December 4, 1933.
		Proclamation was by the Archivist of the United States, pursuant to 1 U.S.C. Sec.
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	United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It had shaped the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence a decade before the drafting of the Constitution, proclaiming that "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which...
		The Congressional Apportionment Amendment, intended to determine the number of Congressional Representatives and limit the size of the House of Representatives, was ratified by only eleven states, one shy of the twelve required to achieve the three-fourths threshold.
		The Congressional Compensation Amendment fared even worse, passing only six states, but was revived in the 1980s and eventually ratified in 1992 as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights (3928 words)

	United States House of Representatives - Amendments to the Constitution
		The amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Mississippi, December 4, 1865.
		The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
		The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States.
	www.house.gov /house/Constitution/Amend.html (2086 words)

	Constitution of the United States
		But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.
		The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
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	Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
		Amendment XI (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Mar. 5, 1794, by the Third Congress.
		Amendment XV (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Feb. 27, 1869, by the Fortieth Congress.
		Amendment XX (The proposed amendment, sometimes called the “Lame Duck Amendment,” was sent to the states Mar. 3, 1932, by the Seventy-second Congress.
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	The Constitution For The United States, Its Sources and Its Applications - Amendment Articles XI - XXVII
		Amendment XII was procedural to eliminate confusion in the selection of the President and Vice President and in definition of their succession in the implementation of their duties under the Constitution.
		This amendment to the Constitution relating to slavery was sent to the states for ratification by the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress on March 2, 1861, when it passed the Senate, having previously passed the House on February 28, 1861.
		State laws forbidding litigants to remove cases to the Federal courts have been uniformly held to abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.
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	Freedom Activist Network's Constitution of the United States
		No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
		Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by legislatures of the several States pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitiution.
		After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
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	United States Constitution
		We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States of America.
		To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
		The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
	pavisnet.com /constitution (4006 words)

	boortz.com: More Boortz
		But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.
		Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
		On the 25th of May, seven States having convened, George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously elected President, and the consideration of the proposed constitution was commenced.
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	THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION - We the People
		This is the enabling document for the United States government and its form of democracy.
		3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
		2: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.
	www.stlplaces.com /constitution (7712 words)

	ISHS--History Moments May 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In addition to "detecting and investigating crime," the new constabulary was to "order abatement of public nuisances and to enforce such orders' by appropriate court action, to suppress riots, to prevent affrays," and to prevent "wrongs to children and dumb animals" that were inhibited by law.
		The 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting mid-term Congressional pay raises, was ratified on May 7, 1992.
		The May 8, 1891, Arbor Day ceremonies in Boise were highlighted by the planting of a red maple on the Capitol grounds by Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third president of the United States.
	idahohistory.net /h_moments_May5.html (254 words)

	LII: Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Amendment XII [Election of President and Vice-President (1804)]
		Amendment XIV [Privileges and Immunities, Due Process, Equal Protection, Apportionment of Representatives, Civil War Disqualification and Debt (1868)]
		Amendment XV [Rights Not to Be Denied on Account of Race (1870)]
	www.law.cornell.edu /constitution/constitution.table.html (145 words)

	United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 2nd Session: Educational Links
		A list of Early Congressional Documents from the Constitutional Convention and the Continental Congress.
		The full text amendments 11 through 27 to the Constitution that have been ratified.
		The full text of amendments to the Constitution that have been proposed but not ratified.
	www.house.gov /Constitution/Amend.html (126 words)

	Proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America (May, 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America (May, 2001)
		Proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
		The right of citizens of the planet Earth to a clean and healthy environment shall not be impaired by industrial, research, or military acts or processes by the United States or by any State, corporation, group, or individual.
	www.animatedsoftware.com /cassini/cass2001/enviroam.htm (133 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Aside from the idiosyncratic action of the Ohio legislature in 1873, which ratified the proposal in protest of a controversial pay increase adopted by Congress, the pay limitation provision lay dormant until the 1980s.
		To that view few would be able to subscribe, and in our opinion it is quite untenable.'' (Emphasis supplied).
		\2\A comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the background, development, failure, and subsequent success of this amendment is Bernstein, The Sleeper Wakes: The History and Legacy of the Twenty- Seventh Amendment, 61 Ford.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/amdt27.html (263 words)

	Right to Privacy: 28th Amendment to The United States Constitution (Proposed)
		Right to Privacy: 28th Amendment to The United States Constitution (Proposed)
		28th Amendment to the Constitution of The United States of America (Proposed)
		During State Detention (Prison, Jail or Psychiatric Facility)
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