How failed attempts to amend the Constitution mobilize political change /
"Since the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention. Only twenty-seven amendments have been a...
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Lessons from the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment]
- Amendment efforts as a movement building resource
- Amendment efforts as a resource for expressing dissent and promoting deliberation
- Part II. Impact of failed amendment efforts on Congressional politics
- Prodding Congress through use of the Article V "Application Clause"
- The impact of Article V on federal legislation
- Part III. Impact of failed amendment efforts on federal executive policy
- Failed amendment efforts and the President's war-making and foreign relations powers