John R. Vile

Proposed Amendments to the U.s. Constitution 1787-2001 (4 Vols.): Proposed Amendments to the U.s. Constitution: 1787-2010 John R. Vile

Since 1787, only twenty-seven amendments have been proposed by two-thirds majorities in Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states.

During this same time, members of Congress have introduced more than eleven and a half thousand proposals, and states have filed close to four hundred additional petitions for constitutional conventions to propose amendments.

These four volumes edited and introduced by John R. Vile collect and update compilations of lists of proposed amendments and convention petitions that have been scattered about in a variety of governmental reports. They also reprint classic studies by Herman Ames and Michael Musmanno that analyzed amending proposals introduced during the nation s early years. The work includes texts of basic constitutional documents like the Articles of Confederation, the U. S. Constitution and its amendments, and the Confederate Constitution, as well as a comprehensive index of all amendments proposed through 2001.

The fourth volume comprises a supplement to the earlier three, and brings the amendments up through 2010.