I’m rereading the Constitution and came across this. The following is a partial list of actual proposed amendments that did not get ratified:
1876 An attempt to abolish the United States Senate
1876 The forbidding of religious leaders from occupying a governmental office or receiving federal funding (This one doesn’t sound so bad!)
1878 An Executive Council of Three to replace the Office of the President (doesn’t sound so bad, unless those three were Dubya, Cheney & Rumsfeld)
1893 Renaming this nation The United States of the Earth (catchy!)
1893 Abolishing the United States Army & Navy
1894 Acknowledging that the Constitution recognize God and Jesus Christ as the supreme authority in human affairs (with Moses and Mohammad coming in a distant third and fourth)
1912 Making marriage between the races illegal
1914 Finding divorce to be illegal
1916 All acts of war should be put to a national vote. Anyone voting yes had to register as a volunteer for service in the US Army (this one is hysterical)
1933 An attempt to limit personal wealth to $1 million
1936 An attempt to allow the American people to vote on whether or not the United States should go to war.
1947 The income tax maximum for an individual should be exceed 25%
1948 The right of citizens to segregate themselves from others
1971 American citizens should have the alienable right to an environment free of pollution (sounds good to me)
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"...the alienable right..."
This is obviously a typo. It should have been '...the amiable right..."
1916 All acts of war should be put to a national vote. Anyone voting yes had to register as a volunteer for service in the US Army (this one is hysterical)"
Sounds like a good idea to me!
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I rather thought the limit on personal wealth an interesting one.
Rosa I do too, although in our world 1 million isn't that much.
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