Other failed amendments in the viral post: ✔️ 'An attempt to abolish the United States Senate.' ✔️ 'The forbidding of drunkenness in the United States and all of its territories.' ✔️ 'An attempt to limit personal wealth to $1 million.'
As the book suggests, the 15 proposals on the list represent a very tiny fraction of all of the failed proposals to amend the U.S. Constitution over the years. According the U.S. Senate historian,. Of those, only 27 have come into effect, while six others gained the two-thirds majority required in both houses of Congress, but failed to be ratified by three-quarters of state legislatures.
1876:"The forbidding of religious leaders from occupying a governmental office or receiving federal funding."This appears to be a reference to the Blaine Amendments — a series of proposals between 1875 and 1876, the first of which was made by James Blaine, a Maine Republican who was a member of the House, and then the Senate, during that period.
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