Proposals for amendments to the United States Constitution
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Many amendments are proposed every year. Most never even get out of committee.
This is an incomplete list of proposed amendments, in reverse chronological order
- Twenty-second Amendment: Repeal proposed February 2005 by Maryland congressman Steny Hoyer. The amendment limits the president to two terms in office.
- Continuity of Government Amendment proposed in 2004 by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. It would ensure the continuity of operations of the United States Congress in the case of emergencies in which a large number of senators or representatives are incapacitated. Such an amendment would allow Congress itself to make emergency appointments to fill vacancies, rather than going through the usual by-election process. [1]
- Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment proposed also by Senator Hatch. It would allow naturalized citizens with at least twenty years' citizenship to become president. Many people believe he wants this amendment so that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has endorsed this amendment, can make a run for the presidency in the near future.
- Seventeenth Amendment repeal proposed in 2004 by Georgia Senator Zell Miller. This amendment would reinstate the appointment of Senators by state legislatures as originally required by Article One, Section Three, Clauses One and Three.
- Federal Marriage Amendment proposed in the spring of 2004 by multiple sources (including President George W. Bush), which defines marriage.
- Balanced budget amendment, in which Congress and the President are forced to balance the budget every year.
- School Prayer Amendment proposed on 9 April 2003, to establish that "The people retain the right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage, and traditions on public property, including schools." [2]
- Protecting the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and National Motto, proposed on 27 February 2003 by Oklahoma Congressman Lucas. [3]
- Right of citizens of the United States to health care of equal high quality proposed in March 2003 by Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., which would create a constitutional right to health care of "equal high quality". [4]
- Flag Burning Amendment first proposed in 1968 to gives Congress the power to make flag burning illegal.
- 10-year terms for all federal judges proposed. S.J. Res. 26.
- Equal Rights Amendment, proposed in 1972, which would make discrimination based solely on gender illegal.
- Human Life Amendment, first proposed in 1973, which would overturn Roe v. Wade.
- Bricker Amendment, proposed in 1951 by Ohio Senator John W. Bricker, which would limit the Federal Government's treaty making power.
- Peace Amendment, proposed in the early twentieth century. This amendment would heavily reduce America's ability to be involved in war.
External link
- Some proposed amendments to the United States Constitution
- Unamendments, by Jason Mazzone, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 1747-1855, 2005.
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