I was playing games with friends on Saturday when the news came down. We looked at each other and said that it was time for that. We were not surprised. We’ve been studying the rhetoric put out by the Democrat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment was the first of twelve amendments proposed to the Constitution. The last ten were approved and became the Bill of Rights. The second, concerning changing how Representatives were apportioned, failed to be passed, but the general idea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment is yet another amendment aimed at modifying the voting electorate. In this case the target was the unjust use of poll taxes to stop people from voting if they could not pay the tax. These poll taxes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twenty-Third Amendment followed the tradition of many other amendments by changing the voting electorate. In this case, the argument was that it was unfair to deny citizens of the capital to vote for the Presidency. Most people at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twenty-Second Amendment instituted a two-term limit on the Presidency. Term limits had been considered back when the Constitution was written, but did not make the final cut even though most of the signers agreed with the basic idea of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment was another one that focused on changing the voting electorate. Previous amendments addressed race or sex. This one age. The minimum voting age in America was 21 at the time. It was argued that it was unfair[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twenty-First Amendment is both a simple and a complicated amendment. To put it simply, it repealed the eighteenth amendment that made it illegal to make or ship alcohol. It is however the only amendment approved by State ratifying conventions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution actually showcased how the industrial revolution changed politics in the United States. Back when the Constitution was ratified, it could take months for new Federally elected individuals to travel from their home States[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Nineteenth Amendment was another Wilson-era amendment to the US Constitution. It made it illegal to deny the vote in the United States, or any of the States, based on sex. Many States banned women from voting at the time,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States. No importation. No exportation. One interesting historical fact is that when the Amendment was voted on, most people thought that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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