Here’s a good idea.
H.R. 2854 would require the Treasury Secretary to redesign the $1 bill, incorporating the preamble to the Constitution, a list of the articles of the Constitution, and a list describing the amendments to the Constitution.
Just this weekend, a friend of mine told me of a lunch she had with some important personages [...]
H.J. Res. 41 proposes an amendment to the Constitution barring the President from entering into a treaty to adopt an international currency. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner made news recently when he said something about being amenable to an international currency.
So it looks like we’re your full-time constitutional amendment monitoring service.
Another constitutional amendment recently proposed in Congress is H. J. Res. 37. It would define marriage in the United States as the “legal union of one man and one woman.”
Now here’s a challenge to those of you who believe strongly in this definition of [...]
We’ve pointed out new constitutional amendments a couple of times here. Well, a bunch of new ones are on Congress’ docket.
Just for you, we’ve organized them into two piles. From the consistent-with-our-scheme-of-negative-rights pile, there’s:
H. J. Res. 28, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote
H. J. [...]
Yesterday, we took a look at some proposed amendments to the Constitution. They generally had to do with government management-type issues: voting, congressional and presidential terms, etc. These things are all important, to be sure.
But another set of amendment proposals are the hot buttons. Let’s take a look at them.
Flag burning is, [...]
The beginning of a new Congress always sees a lot of bills that would propose amendments to the Constitution.
That idea always starts with at least one strike against it – that document is not to be trifled with.
But maybe there are some good ideas out there. Let’s take a look:
There are two [...]