Even More Failed Constitutional Amendments

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Article V of the Constitution lays out two ways to pass amendments: either two thirds of both the House and Senate pass an amendment or two thirds of the states petition for a convention to pass amendments. Either way, once an amendment is passed, it needs to be ratified by three quarters of the states to be formally adopted. Because of how difficult it is for an amendment to successfully get through this process, almost all of the approximately 12,000 proposed amendments were failures. What were these failed amendments, and why did they fail?

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:23 English Language Amendment
1:38 Reed-Dirksen Amendment
3:01 School Prayer Amendment
4:31 Federal Marriage Amendment
5:35 Arnold Amendment
6:53 Human Life Amendment
8:06 Campaign Finance Reform Amendment
9:07 Repeal of the 22nd Amendment
10:40 Initiative and Referendum Amendment
12:07 Conclusion

Introduction
English Language Amendment
Reed-Dirksen Amendment
School Prayer Amendment
Federal Marriage Amendment
Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment
Human Life Amendment
Campaign Finance Reform Amendment
Repeal of the 22nd Amendment
Initiative and Referendum Amendment
Conclusion
-Source: myself (it's my opinion)

#history #americanhistory #politics #constitution
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I'm very glad some of these amendments failed

romulusnuma
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The Initiative and Referendum process is basically how Switzerlands government works

juanmanuel
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As a completely unbiased austrian I wish the arnold amendment would have been passed.

cunningdingo
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So the whole point of saying you have to be a natural born citizen is because they were scared scared someone was gonna try to become king again?

anthonytippett
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It's a semester course distilled down to a six hour seminar refined into 13 snortable crystal minutes

skrugen
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An Amendment SHOULD be really tough to pass...but not practically impossible like it was under the Articles of Confederation (ALL states had to agree).

JohnSmith-zwvp
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I honestly like the idea of Initiative and Referendum process, though I do agree that some safeguards should be put in place to ensure that big companies and rich people are not able to easily control the petitions.

bkam
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Shows up every 2 months to drop a banger then goes dark on everybody till the next video

JimbobsTransportVideos
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I would only support referandum if there is a requirement that makes %60-%67 percent of yes votes necessary to referandum succeed

rc
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Wait the "land of the free" does not have a refemedum

tomaszkarwik
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Not having the Terminator as president feels like a huge miss.

exactinmidget
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You make a good informative video. Short, concise, perfect.

TGouse
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Totally agree on the petition amendment. Give people the power to make change in a system that has a tendency to stagnate

houserhouse
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And if you think the gridlock is bad now, Chevron deference was struck down last week. That gave federal agencies authority to interpret rules and laws related to them the way they saw fit when the rule/law didn't specifically cover something. Let the agencies fill in the gaps because no one can foresee everything.

With that gone, Congress will now have to either fill every gap on the front end or argue what should fill every gap on the back end.

goonerbear
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When I went to elementary school in NY State in the 1950’s and 60’s, we had a non-denominational prayer, but not the one shown.

robertewalt
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I like the 22nd Amendment as it is. It can be nice to have the President be a bit more bold in their second terms because they don’t have to worry about reelection. That being said, it can also not be good.

bnhik
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National referendum would only be good if the cutoff was over 3%. Literally 50% of the population needs to vote imo.

countyfacts
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Idk if my brain is in slow motion or something but it feels like you're talking super fast in this vid. Way faster than the last amendment video.

Hyggin
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its like Sam O'nella but without saying the hard r

TurnipTheBee
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Another banger
Another banger from the zxcgorb

camzigs