How many amendments have been ratified?

Answer 1

27 amendments

Answer 2

6 Six Amendments have been proposed by Congress but never gained enough States' votes to be ratified. They are: One of the first amendments in the Bill of Rights laying out representation, one outlawing titles of nobility, one guaranteeing a state's right to practice slavery, one that gives the Federal Government control over child labor laws, The Equal Rights Amendment, and one that would have given DC full representation in the House and Senate. All of these amendments failed.

Answer 3

Six Amendments have been proposed by Congress but never gained enough States' votes to be ratified. They are:

1. #1 of the first twelve amendments passed, laying out a formula for representation in Congress (ten of these passed immediately & became known as the "Bill of Rights", one other finally passed as the most recent - 27th -amendment)
2. outlawing titles of nobility (1800)
3. one

   guaranteeing the federal govt would not interfere with slavery in the states (1861, the 'original 13th amendment' - was meant to simply restate the current understanding of the Constitution, that only states themselves could outlaw slavery, as an attempt to bring back recently seceded Southern states)

4. giving the Federal Government control over child labor laws (1924)
5. The Equal Rights Amendment (first proposed in 1923, passed Congress in 1972 with an express deadline for ratification, which it failed to meet)
6. one to give Washington DC full representation in the House and Senate (1978, expired in 1985)

Answer 4

Amendments proposed but not ratifiedSince the Constitution was adopted, there have been 27 amendments added and 6 which have NOT been ratified. The following have been offered by Congress but not ratified by the states:

• 1789 - Re-apportionment. Still open for ratification. [Defines a number limit of constituents for Representatives, i.e., 30,000; 40,000; 50,000; etc. This would allow an unlimited number of seats in the House. -- Instead of re-apportionment, the House would just add members as the population increases.]
• 1800 - Titles of Nobility. Still open. [If anyone accepts a title, i.e., King, Duke, Baron, Earl, etc., citizenship is forfeited. This proposal was printed by the government as part of the Constitution (as though it had been ratified) from the time it was proposed until about 1850 when the error was discovered. It has not been ratified.]
• 1861 - Guaranteeing the federal govt will not interfere with slavery in the states. Still open [but moot, since Amendment XIII outlawed slavery in 1865]
• 1924 - Child Labor. Still open. [Gives Congress the power to regulate child labor.]
• 1972 - "Equal Rights Amendment" (ERA). Expired after one extension. Here is the whole proposal:

"Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

• 1978 - District of Columbia - Same Vote in Congress (House & Senate) as the States. Expired after 7 years.

Answer 5

Since the first Congress in 1789, the House and Senate have mustered the necessary two-thirds majority needed for only thirty-three amendments to the Constitution. Of these, twenty-seven have been ratified by the states, leaving just six unratified:

* The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (1789), * The Titles of Nobility Amendment (1810), * The Corwin Amendment (1861), * The Child Labor Amendment (1924), * The Equal Rights Amendment (1972), and * The D.C. Voting Rights Amendment (1978).

The last two have expired, each having contained a seven-year time limit for ratification. The remaining four are still technically available for states to ratify.

Answer 6

The most important one in U. S. history was never ratified , so then what can be said of what has been built on the back of something that never was?

Answer 7

27