About Our Constitution, a Series Article 36 – The Un-ratified Amendment Proposed on March 2, 1861 – Protecting Slavery David Robert Wood June 15, 2012 This proposed Amendment to the Constitution would have protected slavery in the States by prohibiting the federal government from abolishing it at the national level. Following is the original text [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 21 – Article of Amendment XV By David Robert Wood November 1, 2011 Article of Amendment XV reads as follows: Article of Amendment XV Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 20 – Article of Amendment XIV, Part 2 By David Robert Wood October 15, 2011 Article of Amendment XIV reads as follows: Article of Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 18 –Article of Amendment XIII By David Robert Wood September 15, 2011 Article of Amendment XIII reads as follows: Article of Amendment XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 14 – Errors in Wording of the States’ Ratifications of Amendments By David Robert Wood July 15, 2011 Until 1913, it appears that there was virtually no review and scrutiny of the adequacy and correctness of individual State ratifying actions by the U.S. Secretary of State as the Amendment [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 13 – Errors in State Ratification Dates By David Robert Wood July 1, 2011 A State’s definitive ratification of an Amendment proposed to the U.S. Constitution is on the specific date of passage by the State Legislature or State “Convention.” For bicameral Legislatures, the date of ratification is the passage [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 12 – Administration of the Ratification Process, Part 3 By David Robert Wood June 15, 2011 This is the third and last of the discussions on the ratification administrative process. In the preceding two articles, Parts 1 and 2, were discussed the basics of the administrative process, the history [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 11 – Administration of the Ratification Process, Part 2 By David Robert Wood June 1, 2011 In the preceding article, Part 1, commenced the discussion on the ratification administrative process, which begins upon the proposal of a constitutional Amendment by Congress. This included the history of the Amendment Administrators [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 9 – Ratification of Constitutional Amendments, Part 3 By David Robert Wood May 1, 2011 This is the last of three parts that discuss the States’ ratification of Amendments proposed to the United States Constitution. In article 7, “Part 1” was an introduction to the ratification process as exclusively [...]
About Our Constitution, a Series Article 6 – Proposal of Amendments, Part 2 By David Robert Wood March 15, 2011 In the preceding article, the general constitutional amendment process, as exclusively stated in Article V of the Constitution, was discussed, which included a discussion on limitations of the Amendment Power. Also discussed were the two proposal [...]