The 27th amendment took the longest to be ratified since it got proposed. It took 20 years for it to be ratified by the states. The 27th was ratified finally in 1992, it deals with pay raises and decreases for Congress and it's members. It states that Congress cannot give itself a pay raise and if it was to make changes in the pay it would not take effect until after another election happens (it cannot take effect until the next term). My opinions on this amendment are up and down. I do agree that they shouldn't be able to give themselves a pay raise, but then again, who even controls that when they ARE the government? I just think its good that they at least acknowledged the fact and have made it an amendment to clarify how their pay works.
This is just a quick recap on the amendment and how it was finally passed. It clarified for me that they could not get a pay raise until the next term came into office so I chose it because it helped me better understand. I do think he got the date wrong at the beginning, he said it was passed in 1997, but I believe it was 1992. Anyways, I enjoyed his awkwardness and also the fact that he cleared up a few things for me.
I got this picture from http://www.keyword-suggestions.com/Mjd0aCBhbWVuZG1lbnQ/ I chose it because it does kind of scare me that they can just propose to give themselves a raise for the next term they serve. But then again, if I don't think they deserve that raise I can just use my right to vote and hopefully get them out of office for a second term!! I don't know the entire context of this picture as I do not know who Mike is, but I just like the words he is saying as it puts things into a different perspective.
Amendment 26 is important because it states that anyone over the age of 18 may vote. Before, it was 21 years of age, which made no sense because they were drafting 18 year olds to war. That is all there is to this amendment. I am thankful for it and believe that it is an appropriate age to be able to vote.
This was a super good video. It is short and gives useful facts regarding the amendment. It shows the history of all the voting amendment and what year each became proposed and ratified. The 26th was proposed in June of 1970 and ratified and put into Constitution in July of 1971. I never knew it was so recent that this became an amendment so that was something new I learned as well.
I think this video would have been a good video to use for back in the 70s when some of the states did not agree with the voting age going down to 18. It uses a quote "old enough to die, old enough to vote" which I thought was very powerful for just eight words. The video shows soldiers who are young fighting in war, some against their own will, to protect the country. They had no voice, but were forced to fight and die in war. So I enjoyed this video as it would've been good "propaganda" for the people against the new amendment.
Amendment 25 has four sections, each with different standings dealing with the president in a case if he were to die, if the VP were to die, if he (the president) were undergoing a situation where he feels unfit to be in charge, and if the VP feels the president is unfit to be president.
Section one states that if the president were to die, the vice president would take over, this assures that no one else from the opposing party becomes president, rather the VP of the same party will take the throne as president.
Section two states that if the VP were to die, or if the VP position was vacant, the president is allowed to choose a different VP who has to be voted and approved by Congress before assuming the position as VP.
Section three states that the president can allow the VP to take the roles as president if he (the president) feels unfit to be in charge at the moment, such as undergoing medical complications. The president must write this out on a piece of paper and sign it for it to be official.
Finally, Section four states that the vice president along with members of the cabinet can, at any time, vote the president unfit at doing his job. The president can then oppose this with a declaration sent to Congress. In turn, the cabinet and VP can do the same and if they get a 2/3 majority vote from Congress they may take him out of office.
I think this a very important amendment to our Constitution as the first three sections have been used many times in history. It clears out all confusions if an event were to take place that may result in the president or VP from being in office.
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I chose this picture because it is a very known event that happened in history, but I never knew what amendment actually stated these rules. When Kennedy got assassinated, Johnson immediately took over as president. This shows how important this amendment is because without it, the world would be a confusing mess of who will be president next.
This video goes more into depth on when the actual amendment was proposed and also gives facts on how many deaths there have been in the office before the amendment. It proposes that without the 25th amendment, the U.S. could turn into a dictatorship (not sure how or why), but in a sense I guess that could happen if someone wanted to take control without permission if it weren't written in the constitution.
