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Amending (Or Not) the United States Constitution



tsk9653Tsk9653 on 05/05/2008

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AmendingOrNottheUnitedStatesConstitution Photo This quiz touches upon the process for effectuating amendment of the United States Constitution, some facts that I find interesting about certain successful constitutional amendments, and some of the proposed constitutional amendments that remain unratified. I would prefer that the speed demons who punish quiz writers for questions/answers they deem too long not take this quiz. I hope that to the extent this is unfamiliar subject matter to any of the takers of this quiz, you feel as if you have learned something by taking it.

The Constitution has only been amended 27 times since its adoption in 1789, and this includes the addition in 1791 of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights. Not surprisingly, hundreds of other efforts to change the Constitution have failed at various points in the process of effectuating amendment. Undoubtedly because so few efforts to amend the Constitution have ever come close to being successful, important issues of constitutional law relative to the amendment process have not been resolved.

The image introducing this quiz is of a portion of the canvass "Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States", which is a 1940 painting created by Howard Chandler Christy.

Sources: Hall, ed., "The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States" (Oxford University Press, 1992); Foner & Garraty, eds., "The Reader's Companion to American History" (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991), and Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia.
12 Questions




Rating:  (8.65/9)
Difficulty:  Very Difficult
Taken: 40 times



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