Do you disagree with any of the Amendments?

Are there any amendments you either disagree with, or think could stand to be revised?

#Amendments - Proposal date - Enactment date - Full text

1st	Protects the freedom of religion, speech, and the press, as well as the right to assemble and petition the government	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
2nd	Protects the right to bear arms	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
3rd	Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers out of war time	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
4th	Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
5th	Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
6th	Protects the right to have a fair and speedy public trial by jury, including the rights to be notified of the accusations, to confront the accuser, to obtain witnesses and to retain counsel	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
7th	Provides for the right to trial by jury in certain civil cases, according to common law	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
8th	Prohibits excessive fines and excessive bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishment	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
9th	Asserts the existence of unenumerated rights retained by the people	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
10th	Limits the powers of the federal government to those delegated to it by the Constitution	September 25, 1789	December 15, 1791	Full text
11th	Immunity of states from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders. Lays the foundation for sovereign immunity	March 4, 1794	February 7, 1795	Full text
12th	Revises presidential election procedures	December 9, 1803	June 15, 1804	Full text
13th	Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime	January 31, 1865	December 6, 1865	Full text
14th	Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues	June 13, 1866	July 9, 1868	Full text
15th	Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude	February 26, 1869	February 3, 1870	Full text
16th	Allows the federal government to collect income tax.	July 12, 1909	February 3, 1913	Full text
17th	Requires senators to be directly elected	May 13, 1912	April 8, 1913	Full text
18th	Establishes Prohibition of alcohol (Repealed by Twenty-first Amendment)	December 18, 1917	January 16, 1919	Full text
19th	Establishes women's suffrage	June 4, 1919	August 18, 1920	Full text
20th	Fixes the dates of term commencements for Congress (January 3) and the President (January 20); known as the "lame duck amendment"	March 2, 1932	January 23, 1933	Full text
21st	Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment	February 20, 1933	December 5, 1933	Full text
22nd	Limits the president to two terms, or a maximum of 10 years (i.e., if a Vice President serves not more than one half of a President's term, they can be elected to a further two terms)	March 24, 1947	February 27, 1951	Full text
23rd	Provides for representation of Washington, D.C. in the Electoral College	June 16, 1960	March 29, 1961	Full text
24th	Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of poll taxes	September 14, 1962	January 23, 1964	Full text
25th	Codifies the Tyler Precedent; defines the process of presidential succession	July 6, 1965	February 10, 1967	Full text
26th	Establishes the official voting age to be 18 years old	March 23, 1971	July 1, 1971	Full text
27th	Prevents laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until the beginning of the next session of Congress	September 25, 1789	May 5 or 7, 1992[1]	Full text

Nah. They're fine.

Leave the Amendments alone. They're fine. It's the idiots trying to revise them that are the problem.

CeCe wrote:Leave the Amendments alone. They're fine. It's the idiots trying to revise them that are the problem.

^This.

Ummm....Hmm. Not really.

well the 14th grants whoever who is born in this country to be a citizen. That I dont agree with. It causes too many "anchor baby" situations, not to mention puts pregnant women traveling across the borders in serious physical dangers which could cause harm to them and the baby. It also puts strain on our hospitals because they are footing the bill for the illegal immigrant pregnant woman to have her baby here.

The 16th - collecting income tax - do away with it. We pay enough freaking tax on everything from our cable and phone bills, to property tax and school tax. Put a usage tax on products, such as with cigarettes and gas - that people who consume the most pay the most taxes. That way the rich, who spend more, would be paying their fair share of taxes and wouldnt have any loopholes to deduct!

I think we need an addendum on the 22nd amendment to include limited terms for Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices and all other government officials--not just the President.

You can't even vote some of these idiots out of office, they've got their claws in so deep from having made a life-long career out of their position.

2-4 year limit, then boot their asses out--and no special perks for having been a Congressman. Go back to work in the public sector and earn your pension/Social Security and healthcare benefits, pay your taxes, just like the rest of us have to do.

Hyacinth Girl wrote:...
2-4 year limit, then boot their asses out--and no special perks for having been a Congressman. Go back to work in the public sector and earn your pension/Social Security and healthcare benefits, pay your taxes, just like the rest of us have to do.

You got my vote!

Shale wrote:

Hyacinth Girl wrote:...
2-4 year limit, then boot their asses out--and no special perks for having been a Congressman. Go back to work in the public sector and earn your pension/Social Security and healthcare benefits, pay your taxes, just like the rest of us have to do.

You got my vote!

That's actually not a bad idea at all.

I am so with the first two 110%.

I think #10 is abused, and I don't like #14, either. Otherwise, I wish the nation would quit trying to f---with it.

Supernova wrote:

CeCe wrote:Leave the Amendments alone. They're fine. It's the idiots trying to revise them that are the problem.

^This.

What problems are those? I think there are a few people that appreciate the 13th, 15th and 19th. They should have just stopped after Article VII? I don't know about you but I ain't giving up the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments without a fight. The U.S. Constitution is a living document. When should we have stopped trying to fuck with it?

CeCe wrote:

Shale wrote:

You got my vote!

That's actually not a bad idea at all.

On November 11, 2009, Republican Senator Jim DeMint proposed term limits for the U.S. Congress, where the limit for senators will be two terms for a total of 12 years and for representatives, three terms for a total of six years.

These need to be implemented before they can be judged.

Right now, they're just pipe dreams.

(Oh!) Rob Petrie wrote:These need to be implemented before they can be judged.

Right now, they're just pipe dreams.

Which?

Alan Smithee wrote:

Supernova wrote:


^This.

What problems are those? I think there are a few people that appreciate the 13th, 15th and 19th. They should have just stopped after Article VII? I don't know about you but I ain't giving up the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments without a fight. The U.S. Constitution is a living document. When should we have stopped trying to fuck with it?

Nobody said a damn thing about giving up the Bill of Rights. Maybe when dumbasses want to alter Constitutional Amendments to ban burning the flag? (Fuck the citizens but protect those symbols) To restore prayer to schools? To ban any marriage that doesn't fit into their religious little dogma? And that religious bullshit tries to get added in every chance they get. And it will, eventually if the country doesn't collapse first for other reasons. Most Americans are too damn lazy or apathetic to even vote.

When there's something to add or revise that actually DOES something for the citizens rather than oppress then fine. Revise away. But until then, leave it the hell alone.

CeCe wrote:

Alan Smithee wrote:

What problems are those? I think there are a few people that appreciate the 13th, 15th and 19th. They should have just stopped after Article VII? I don't know about you but I ain't giving up the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments without a fight. The U.S. Constitution is a living document. When should we have stopped trying to fuck with it?

Nobody said a damn thing about giving up the Bill of Rights. Maybe when dumbasses want to alter Constitutional Amendments to ban burning the flag? (Fuck the citizens but protect those symbols) To restore prayer to schools? To ban any marriage that doesn't fit into their religious little dogma? And that religious bullshit tries to get added in every chance they get. And it will, eventually if the country doesn't collapse first for other reasons. Most Americans are too damn lazy or apathetic to even vote.

When there's something to add or revise that actually DOES something for the citizens rather than oppress then fine. Revise away. But until then, leave it the hell alone.

Well that's how we got them. By amending the constitution. Not by revising the other amendments which the rest of you are pissing and moaning about. Sometimes change is for the better. There's nothing in this country anyone would want to see changed for the better? Sad. To answer Chris' question, I disagree with #19.

wants2laugh wrote:well the 14th grants whoever who is born in this country to be a citizen. That I dont agree with. It causes too many "anchor baby" situations, not to mention puts pregnant women traveling across the borders in serious physical dangers which could cause harm to them and the baby. It also puts strain on our hospitals because they are footing the bill for the illegal immigrant pregnant woman to have her baby here.

But the rest of them I completly agree with.