Overrated/Underrated Amendments by Elizabeth O'Donnell https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2 en-us 2023-05-18 15:23:35 UTC 2023-05-24 13:52:16 UTC hello@padlet.com OVERRATED - 2nd Amendment eliodonnell https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597636030 1. Right to Bear Arms 
On May 24, 2022, a gunman shot and killed at least 21 victims—including 19 children and two teachers—and wounded at least 17 others at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas 

School is the last place where kids should have to worry about gun violence. Our children and country deserve better. 
]]> 2023-05-19 13:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597636030 OVERRATED - 16th Amendment evajohnson https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597637443 1. Income Tax 
The Revenue Act of 1862 charged citizens earning more than $600 per year 3% of their income, while those making over $10,000 paid 5%.
Tax rates were reduced after the war. But Congress had discovered how easy it was to pump enormous amounts of money into the U.S. treasury. Today, more than 80 years after the ratification of the 16th Amendment, the income tax has changed dramatically. Unlike 1913, most Americans today must pay some federal income tax.
]]> 2023-05-19 13:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597637443 UNDERRATED - 22nd Amendment evajohnson https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597637647 1. Two-Term Limit on Presidency 
November 5, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in office—an unprecedented act that would be barred by a constitutional amendment a decade later. 
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once,” the amendment read, in a clear reference to Roosevelt. 
Thomas Dewey said a potential 16-year term for Roosevelt was a threat to democracy. In a speech in Buffalo on October 31, 1944, Dewey said, "four terms or sixteen years is the most dangerous threat to our freedom ever proposed. That is one reason why I believe that two terms must be established as the limit by constitutional amendment." 


]]> 2023-05-19 13:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597637647 UNDERRATED - 19th Amendment evajohnson https://padlet.com/eliodonnell/e2b2j1td01bamib2/wish/2597637905 1. Women’s Right to Vote- The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA); the group’s leaders supported the 15th Amendment and feared it would not pass if it included voting rights for women. (The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870.) Opposition to woman suffrage in the United States predated the Constitutional Convention (1787), which drafted and adopted the Constitution.
passage of the amendment and the decades-long contributions of Black women to achieve suffrage, poll taxes, local laws and other restrictions continued to block women of color from voting. Black men and women also faced intimidation and often violent opposition at the polls or when attempting to register to vote. It would take more than 40 years for all women to achieve voting equality.During America’s early history, women were denied some of the basic rights enjoyed by male citizens. 
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