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Amend the Constitution?

Should the Constitution be amended to define marriage? What amendment reversed a previous amendment? Can a state change its mind after it votes on an amendment? Find out why it all matters.

March 2004

Gay Marriage (for more information, see: http://www.stateline.org/stateline/?pa=story&sa=showStoryInfo&id=353058 )

Baird, Robert M. and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate
HQ76.3 .S33 1997

Gay Marriage HQ76.3 .U5 G387 1998

Kranz, Rachel and Tim Cusick. Gay Rights
HQ76.8 .U5 K73 2000

Nava, Michael and Robert Dawidoff. Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America
HQ76.8 .U5 N38 1994

Sullivan, Andrew, ed. Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con; A Reader
HQ76.25 .S26 1997


The Constitution

Bernstein, Richard B. Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It?
KF4555 .B47 1993

The Constitution of the United States of America [videorecording]
KF4550 .C66x 1993

Friendly, Fred W. and Martha J. H. Elliott. The Constitution: That Delicate Balance: Landmark Cases That Shaped the Constitution
KF4550 .F73 1984

Gerberg, Mort. The U.S. Constitution for Everyone
KF4527 .U55 1987

Plummer, Simmie G. The Constitution Made Easier
KF4527 .P58x 1987

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
KF4541 .R35 1996

The United States Constitution [videorecording]
KF4550 .U553x 1999

Vile, John R. A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments
KF 4550 .V55 1993


Amendments

1st

Gaustad, Edwin S. Church and State in America
BR516 .G358 1999

Godwin, Mike. Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
KF4772 .G63 1998

Hentoff, Nat. Free Speech for Me – But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
KF4772 .H46 1992

May it Please the Court: The First Amendment; Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases
KF4770 .M35 1997

Noonan, John T., Jr. The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom
BR516 .N59 1998

The Supreme Court’s Holy Battles [videorecording]
KF4783 .Z9 S8x 1989


2nd

Bogus, Carl T., ed. The Second Amendment in Law and History
KF3941 .S43 2000

Freedman, Warren. The Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms: The Second Amendment and Its Interpretation
KF3941 .F74 1989

Halbrook, Stephen P. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
KF3941 .H35 1984

Sommers, Michael A. The Right to Bear Arms
KF3941 .S66 2001

Weir, William. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Battle Over Gun Control
HV7436 .W45 1997

8th

12th

Glennon, Michael J. When No Majority Rules: The Electoral College and Presidential Succession
JK529 .G58 1992

Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College
JK1976 .S43 2001

13th

Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment
E453 .V67 2001


16th

Graetz, Michael J. The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here
HJ4652 .G697 1999

Witte, John F. The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax
HJ4652 .W69 1985

18th & 21st

Barr, Andrew. Drink: A Social History of America
HV5292 .B37x 1999

Blocker, Jack S., Jr. American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform
HV 5229 .B55 1989

Kobler, John. Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
HV5089 .K67 1993

Pegram, Thomas R. Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933
HV5292 .P44 1998

19th

How We Got the Vote: The Exciting Story of the Struggle for Female Equality [videorecording]
JF848 .H68x 1986

One Woman One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
JK1896 .O54 1995

The Women’s Vote: Beyond the Nineteenth Amendment
JK1905 .W6x 1983

25th

Feerick, John D. From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession
JK609 .F4

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT RATIFIED

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

Berry, Mary Frances. Why Equal Rights Failed: Politics, Women’s Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution
KF4758 .B45 1986

Eisler, Riane T. The Equal Rights Handbook: What ERA Means to Your Life, Your Rights, and the Future
HQ1426 .E4 1998

Whitney, Sharon. The Equal Rights Amendment: The History and the Movement
KF4758 .Z9 W44 1984

FLAG DESECRATION

Goldstein, Robert J. “Saving Old Glory”: The History of the American Flag Desecration Controversy
CR113 .G57 1995


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