Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2001 (4 Vols.): Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution: 1787-2010

Published 2003, 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution were ratified between 1787 and 1992. At the same time members of Congress proposed 11,500 amendments; states have filed close to 400 additional petitions for constitutional conventions to propose amendments. These four volumes edited and introduced by John R. Vile collect and update compilations of lists of proposed amendments and convention petitions that have been scattered about in a variety of governmental reports. They also reprint classic studies by Herman Ames and Michael Musmanno that analyzed amending proposals introduced during the nation''s early years. The work includes texts of basic constitutional documents like the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, and the Confederate Constitution, as well as a comprehensive index of all amendments proposed through 2001. The fourth volume comprises a supplement to the earlier three, and brings the amendments up through 2010. CONTENTS: Volume I: Introduction, Dr. John R. Vile; The Articles of Confederation; Constitution of the United States of America and its Amendments; Dates Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Were Proposed and Ratified; Constitution of the Confederate States of America; The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United State During the First Century of Its History (1897), Herman V. Ames. Volume II: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; Introduced in Congress from December 4, 1889 to July 2, 1926, S. Doc. No. 93, 69th Cong. 1st Sess. (1926); Proposed Amendments to the Constitution, a Monograph on the Resolutions introduced in Congress Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, H. Doc. 551, 70th Cong., 2d Sess. (1929), Michael Angelo Musmanno; Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Introduced in Congress from the 69th Congress, 2d Session through the 87th Congress, 2d Session, December 6, 1926 to January 3, 1963, S. Doc. No. 163, 87th Cong. 2d Sess. (1962). Volume III: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Introduced in Congress from the 88th Congress, 1st Session through the 90th Congress 2d Session, January 9, 1963 to January 3, 1969, S. Doc. No. 91-38, 91st Cong. 2d Sess. (1969); Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Introduced in Congress from the 91st Congress, 1st Session through the 98th Congress, 2d Session, January 1969-December 1984, CSR Report No. 85-36 GOV, Richard Davis; Proposed Amendments to the Constitution: 99th-101st Congress (1985-1990), Daryl B. Harris; Proposed Amendments to the United States Constitution, 102nd - first half of 107th Congresses (1991-2001); Amendments Proposed by Two-Thirds Majorities of Congress but not Ratified by the States; List of Applicants by the States to Congress for a Constitutional Convention; Comprehensive Index of Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 1787-2001. Volume IV Supplement 2001-2010: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; second half of 107th Congresses (1991-2001); 108th Congress (2003-2004); 109th Congress (2005-2006), 110th Congress (2007-2008); 111th Congress (2009-2010). Dr. John R. Vile (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a Professor of Political Science and Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. Vile has written and edited six previous books on the constitutional amending process including the award-winning Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues: 1789-2010, now in its third edition. Vile is also the author of Presidential Winners and Losers: Words of Victory and Concession (2002), The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America''s Founding (2005), A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, 5th ed. (2010), and Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law, 15th ed. (2010). He is the editor of Great American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia (2001), Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia (2003), and a CD-ROM entitled The History of the American Legal System (1999). He is a coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America (2005), the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (2009), James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman (2008), and of Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (2011). In addition to writing numerous articles and reviews, Vile has authored the introduction for the Lawbook Exchange''s 2008 reprint of Noah Webster''s Sketches of American Policy.John R. Vile is the author of 'Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2001 (4 Vols.): Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution: 1787-2010', published 2011 under ISBN 9781584772255 and ISBN 1584772255.