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Amendments

Not all good stories have happy endings. Plus, 7 other things worth your time.

Bill Murphy Jr.
May 20, 2021
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Amendments

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In 1982, a student at the University of Texas at Austin named Gregory Watson, then 19, was reading about the U.S. Constitution.

He learned, to his surprise, that there was a proposed constitutional amendment from 1789 that had never been ratified by enough states to become part of the Constitution.

Offered by Rep. James Madison (who would later go on to b…

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