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Which of these constitutional amendments passed by congress should get ratified?

Which of these constitutional amendments should be ratified?

  • Child Labor Amendment

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Congressional Apportionment Amendment

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • Equal Rights Amendment

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • Titles of Nobility Amendment

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • Corwin Amendment

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • None of the above

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Total voters
    5
  • Poll closed .

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Here's the list:

Child Labor - Gives congress the authority to pass child labor laws for people under the age of 18.

Congressional Apportionment Amendment - Every 30k resident = 1 U.S House member.

Corwin Amendment - Preserves slavery.

District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment - Repeals the 23rd amendment and treats Washington D.C as a state, giving them congressional representation.

Equal Rights Amendment - Eliminates legal distinction between men and women.

Titles of Nobility Amendment - Strips citizenship or denies citizenship to anybody with a royalty title, such as king, queen, or prince.

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Here's the list:

Child Labor - Gives congress the authority to pass child labor laws for people under the age of 18.
Hell no for obvious reasons

Congressional Apportionment Amendment - Every 30k resident = 1 U.S House member.
That means there will be 8.76k house members

Corwin Amendment - Preserves slavery.
F*ck no.

District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment - Repeals the 23rd amendment and treats Washington D.C as a state, giving them congressional representation.
Then DC will be the most important, and that will be a problem in the United States of America's

Equal Rights Amendment - Eliminates legal distinction between men and women.
We should keep legal distinction, but treat everyone equally

Titles of Nobility Amendment - Strips citizenship or denies citizenship to anybody with a royalty title, such as king, queen, or prince.
No. If the country that the Royal resides in allows dual citizenship then it's fine with me

For more information, please read the link below.

 
Here's the list:

Child Labor - Gives congress the authority to pass child labor laws for people under the age of 18.
Not sure this has any purpose anymore.
There are plenty of regulations and laws about under-18 workers, I'm not sure this needs to exist.

Congressional Apportionment Amendment - Every 30k resident = 1 U.S House member.
On the one hand this would mean better representation for higher population states, but on the other hand it would mean there would be enough representatives to fill a small stadium, and far more than would fit in the current facilities provided.
Doing a rough calculation, according to this there are 331 million people residing in the United States, so...
331,000,000/30,000 = 33,100/3 = about 11,033.333...

Assuming for the moment that the maximum capacity of the current building the house of representatives meets in is about 500 people, that's over 22 times it's capacity.

On the plus side this would mean far more people to work on bills and such, but on the negative side we'd have to fund the salaries and staffs of about 10,750 new representatives, not to mention the increased infrastructure necessary for communications, housing, security, etc.
Probably be good for the economy of D.C. though.

Might make more sense to increase that number to 300k residents per representative, that would only increase the representative count to 1,103, a bit more than twice it's current number.

Corwin Amendment - Preserves slavery.
The text of this amendment is as follows:
"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State."
This is more than preserving slavery, it would also effectively prevent congress from passing any constitutional amendments or laws that override state laws

For ANY reason.
Unless I'm misunderstanding it.

Terrible idea, just a desperation move by some trying to prevent the US Civil War.

District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment - Repeals the 23rd amendment and treats Washington D.C as a state, giving them congressional representation.
Frankly, I tend to think that D.C. along with all the territories that wish it should become states.
Or at least there should be some way to provide full and equal representation in congress for the people living there.

Equal Rights Amendment - Eliminates legal distinction between men and women.
At first glance it's a no-brainer, obviously there should be no unequal legal treatment based on sex.

But I'm really not sure what all might be affected by this.
What if someone tries to use it to argue that since men can't get abortions women shouldn't be allowed to?
Or some equally silly stuff.

Titles of Nobility Amendment - Strips citizenship or denies citizenship to anybody with a royalty title, such as king, queen, or prince.
Meh.
I think this perhaps meant more in the 1800s, today I don't think most would care if you have a title or not, so long as it holds no legal authority in the USA.
 
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