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CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [I] FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED/THE NEW EQUAL PROTECTION/SECTION 2. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION/APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION/SECTIONS 3 AND 4. DISQUALIFICATION AND PUBLIC DEBT/DISQUALIFICATION AND PUBLIC DEBT/SECTION 5. ENFORCEMENT/ENFORCEMENT |
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CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [A] FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT/RIGHTS GUARANTEED/PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENSHIP,/DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED: CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED: PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED: DUE PROCESS OF LAW/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED DUE PROCESS OF LAW/DUE PROCESS OF LAW |
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CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [H][2] CRS/LII Annotated Constitution |
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CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V ARTICLE V/MODE OF AMENDMENT/MODE OF AMENDMENT/AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION |
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CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V [2] Ratification. In 1992, the Nation apparently ratified a long quiescent 27th Amendment, to the surprise of just about everyone. Whether the new Amendment has any effect in the area of its subject matter, the effective date of congressional pay raises, the adoption of this provision has unsettled much of the supposed learning on the issue of the timeliness of pendency of constitutional amendments. It has been accepted that Congress may, in proposing an amendment, set a reasonable time limit for its ratification. Beginning with the Eighteenth Amendment, save for the Nineteenth, Congress has included language in all proposals stating that the amendment should be inoperative unless ratified within seven |