Epic Fail! Constitutional Amendments That Didn't Make the Grade [TEASER]

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Prologue Projects

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It's basically impossible to amend our crummy Constitution, as demonstrated by the litany of proposed amendments that have face planted directly into the dustbin of history.

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0:00.0	Now the Equal Rights Amendment will positively make women subject to the draft on an equal basis with the men.
0:07.0	They want to legislate away any differences between men and women, which will mean goodbye girls scouts and hell of unisex bathrooms.
0:13.3	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Viasco and prologue projects.
0:21.6	On this episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianen, and Michael are talking about
0:26.2	failed constitutional amendments. At the founding, the authors of the Constitution
0:31.2	outlined a way to amend the document, and that process worked
0:35.0	27 times.
0:37.0	Since the founding, there have been six amendments that did not make the grade, including
0:41.4	one to regulate child labor, one to make Washington, D.C. a state, and
0:46.1	one to confer equal rights to men and women.
0:49.3	The founders intended for the Constitution to evolve.
0:52.7	The process they designed does not function
0:55.0	in our fractious political climate.
0:57.4	The result is a constitutional order, frozen in time.
1:01.6	This is five to four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court cases that have
1:17.9	set our civil rights ablaze like Satan setting Henry Kissinger's soul on fire.
1:23.5	Bye!
1:24.5	By loser!
1:26.5	You fucking evil cretin, ugly ghoul piece of shit.
1:30.3	Bye!
1:31.1	Rotten piss Bozo.
1:32.3	I hope it fucking hurts how hot it by. Rotten piss Bozo. I hope it fucking hurts how hot it is down there.
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