How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Change

by Roger C Hartley

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 approved in 225 years. Why do members of Congress continue to introduce amendments at a pace of almost two hundred a year?

This book is a demonstration of how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826521487
• ISBN13: 9780826521484
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"