Proposed Amendments to the

 United States Constitution

Check out the following sites for a list of proposed (but not ratified) amendments

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-proposed-amendments-to-the-united-states-constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

http://www.usconstitution.net/constamprop.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful_attempts_to_amend_the_U.S._Constitution

http://www.thisnation.com/textbook/constitution-amend.html

 

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In recent years there have been dozens of suggested amendments put forth by special interests either unhappy with Supreme Court decisions or frustrated by the inability (or unwillingness) of Congress to do certain things. Some of the suggested amendments have included...

Requiring a balanced federal budget

Mandating a two-thirds vote by both houses of Congress for any measure that would increase federal tax revenues

Allowing prayer in public schools

Making flag burning illegal

Guaranteeing the rights of crime victims,

Abolishing the Electoral College and allowing the direct election of the president

Forbidding gender-based discrimination through the Equal Rights Amendment

Allowing a national presidential primary vote

Granting statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico,

Setting a single six-year term for presidents

Establishing a presidential line-item veto (a line-item veto was authorized by statute in 1996 but struck down by the Supreme Court two years later)

Federal Marriage Amendment that would restrict the legal definition of marriage to "the union between a man and a woman" and confine marital status and its legal prerogatives to heterosexual couples

 

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