Failed Constitutional Amendments
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
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Summary
Hundreds of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution are introduced during each session of the United States Congress. From 1789 through January 3, 2025, approximately 11,985 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution.[1] Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress.[2] Most, however, never get out of the Congressional committees in which they were proposed. Only a fraction of those actually receive enough support to win Congressional approval to go through the constitutional ratification process. Some proposed amendments are introduced over and over again in different sessions of Congress. It is also common for a number of identical resolutions to be offered on issues that have widespread public and congressional support
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome, citation needed. |
| 0:24.5 | The podcast where we choose the subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia, |
| 0:27.9 | and pretend we're experts, because this is the internet, and that's how it works now. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Eli Bosnick, and I'll be reading between the lines tonight, but I'll need some fellow patriots to help us wig out. |
| 0:38.4 | Tom's unable to join us today because, come on, he only missed one show all year. |
| 0:42.5 | But we've got three proud Americans who only stay erect when a bald eagle is around, Noah, |
| 0:48.1 | Heath, and Cecil. |
| 0:49.4 | You don't even want to know what I did to that apple pie. |
| 0:52.5 | Fair enough. |
| 0:53.5 | And then I ate it. |
| 0:55.9 | A lattice top is like a square glory hole. |
| 0:58.7 | So I see what you mean. |
| 0:59.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:01.2 | And also joining us tonight, a man who would have never given rights to people with |
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| 1:08.4 | Okay, this is all just one big misunderstanding. |
| 1:10.5 | I actually said I disliked your know it all friends. |
| 1:13.7 | Your cerebral pals. |
| 1:15.9 | Although, yes, I happen to dislike them because they're all disabled. |
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