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Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

An amendment refers to the modification to the original content of the Constitution that was approved in 1788. Amendments may improve, correct, or revise the original content. Twenty-seven amendments have been added to the Constitution.

Transcript of the U.S. Constitution

Amendments 1-10 are the Bill of Rights, est. by the First Congress of the U.S.
Amendments 11-27 are post 1791, the result of lawsuits.

Proposed amendments that were not ratified
Government Printing Office

Books

The Bill of Rights by Akhil Reed Amar
Call Number: e-Book, 1998
This study illuminates the text, structure, and history of the clauses of the 1789 Bill of Rights, and looks at their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. The author also looks at the changes brought about by the introduction of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments by John R. Vile
Call Number: e-Book, 2010
100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment by Holly J. McCammon (Editor); Lee Ann Banaszak (Editor)
Call Number: HQ 1236.5 .U6 A16 2018 (3rd floor)
2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote. This collection of original essays takes a long view of the past century of women's political engagement to gauge how much women have achieved in the political arena.

The Constitutional Amendment Process

The authority to amend the Constitution of the United States is derived from Article V of the Constitution. After Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. 106b. The Archivist ... [Read on]

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