Background and Suggested Activities


Questions or comments: constcon99@aol.com	Background Constitutional Amendment Factoids The Process How the Constitution Can Be Amended An Annotated Article V What kinds of problems need to be addressed by changing the Constitution? Proposal and Ratifying Conventions: The Roads Less Traveled Overturning Supreme Court Decisions with Constitutional Amendments To Amend or Not to Amend? Experts Disagree History Origins of the Constitutional Amendment Process Periods of Major Constitutional Change Also Rans: Proposed Amendments Not Ratified Ratification Time Limits and the Odd Story of the Tweny-seventh Amendment Activities Do any recent Supreme Court decisions deserve to be overturned by amending the Constitution? Should the impeachment process be reformed? Should the United States adopt a parliamentary system? Should the United States adopt proportional representation? Should the United states adopt an amendment guaranteeing equal rights to all Americans regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, color or indigence? Should we require Congress to pass a balanced budget? Is the Bill of Rights good enough? Should we have a Bill of Duties? Should we eliminate the electoral college? Should "Hate Speech" by banned?