US Constitution, Amendments

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The Lost Amendment Plus 3 Invalid Amendments

3 More Invalid Amendments plus VRSF & Inflation

Bill of Rights: 1st and 3rd Amendments

The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Amendments

Discussion of the 4th and 5th Amendments

The Law as Established in the 6th and 7th Amendments

The 8th, 9th, and 10th Amendments

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments

The most important parts of the Constitution are in the first ten amendments.

Richard Henry Lee to Patrick Henry (September 14, 1789):

{I have} since waited to see the issue of the proposed amendts. to the Constitution, that I might give you the most [exact] account of that business. As they came from the H. of R. they were very far short of the wishes of our (State) Convention, but as they are returned by the Senate they are certainly much weakened.

You may be assured that nothing on my part was left undone to prevent this, and every possible effort was used to give success to all the Amendments proposed by our Country-(Virginia)

We might as well have attempted to move Mount Atlas upon our shoulders-In fact, the idea of subsequent Amendments was delusion altogether, and so intended by the greater part of those who arrogated to themselves the name of Fœderalists. I am grieved to see that too many look at the Rights of the people as a Miser examines a Security to find a flaw in it! The great points of free election, Jury trial in criminal cases much loosened, the unlimited right of Taxation, and Standing Armies in peace, remain as they were.

Some valuable Rights are indeed declared, but the powers that remain are very sufficient to render them nugatory at pleasure…