What Was The Amendment Proposed? Why Did This Amendment Fail?
Coraima Oros
Government : Constitutional Principles : Section One
Failed Amendments Assignment:
We know that 27 amendments have been added to the Constitution over the years. Far more amendments have been proposed, and have failed to make it through the process of being added to the Constitution.
Do some research online or at your library to discover some failed amendments. Choose one of the amendments that failed and write a brief essay including the following information:
Describe the proposed amendment and what it would do.
When was the amendment proposed?
Why was the amendment proposed? Why did some individuals believe there was a need for such an amendment at that time?
Why did the amendment fail?
Could this amendment pass today? …show more content…
The amendment was proposed because children/employees 14-16 years of age were unconstitual meaning that they were violating the rules. I would assume the people from back in the day wanted whats best for the children. They were being born in the factories which might effect their health/birth. The child amendment failed because it was onlyapporved by 28 states requiring 10 more to become an amendment. Congressional research shows that only 28 states approved the amendment the last being in 1937. Since the amendment was not approved by 3/4 of the states it is technically still pending because Congress did not set a time limit. If this amendment was proposed again i think it would probably not be approved by half of the states because so many things that have changed from back then to now meaning there is no children being born in factories. In my opinion this amendment would be useless because there are already so many young or soon to be parents myself included. It wasn 't approved by 38 states back then when times were hard and hospitals were way different from what they are now why would it be approved now when medicine and technology is so
Government : Constitutional Principles : Section One
Failed Amendments Assignment:
We know that 27 amendments have been added to the Constitution over the years. Far more amendments have been proposed, and have failed to make it through the process of being added to the Constitution.
Do some research online or at your library to discover some failed amendments. Choose one of the amendments that failed and write a brief essay including the following information:
Describe the proposed amendment and what it would do.
When was the amendment proposed?
Why was the amendment proposed? Why did some individuals believe there was a need for such an amendment at that time?
Why did the amendment fail?
Could this amendment pass today? …show more content…
The amendment was proposed because children/employees 14-16 years of age were unconstitual meaning that they were violating the rules. I would assume the people from back in the day wanted whats best for the children. They were being born in the factories which might effect their health/birth. The child amendment failed because it was onlyapporved by 28 states requiring 10 more to become an amendment. Congressional research shows that only 28 states approved the amendment the last being in 1937. Since the amendment was not approved by 3/4 of the states it is technically still pending because Congress did not set a time limit. If this amendment was proposed again i think it would probably not be approved by half of the states because so many things that have changed from back then to now meaning there is no children being born in factories. In my opinion this amendment would be useless because there are already so many young or soon to be parents myself included. It wasn 't approved by 38 states back then when times were hard and hospitals were way different from what they are now why would it be approved now when medicine and technology is so