Which Amendment to the US Constitution is the Best Amendment?

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some really good contenders here - first obv, the suffrage acts, the 13th, the 21st, which is yr fave?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
13th: abolished slavery	8
1st: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, protest	7
14th: privileges or immunities clause, due process clause, equal protection clause	4
21st: repeal of 18th amendment	3
4th: no unlawful searches or seizures	2
2nd: right to keep, bear arms	2
18th: prohibition of alcohol	2
23rd: grants district of columbia electors in the electoral college	1
11th: states immune from suits from out-of-state citizens, foreigners not living in state borders	1
12th: separate electoral ballots for prez + vp	1
9th: unenumerated rights	1
24th: cannot use poll tax to deny vote	0
22nd: no president can serve more than 2 terms	0
26th: cannot be denied right to vote based on age if you're at least 18	0
20th: sets date for which terms of prez, vp + congress end + begin	0
19th: cannot deny right to vote based on sex	0
25th: presidential + vp succession laws	0
17th: popular election of senators	0
5th: no self-incrimination, no double jeopardy, due process, eminent domain	0
6th: right to speedy trial & lawyer	0
7th: right to a jury trial	0
8th: no cruel and unusual punishment	0
10th: powers reserved to the states	0
3rd: no quartering of soldiers	0
15th: cannot deny right to vote based on race, color or servitude	0
16th: congress can tax income directly	0
27th: prevents any law that changes the salaries of senators + reps from taking effect until next election	0

― Mordy, Friday, 13 March 2015 15:44 (ten years ago)

I'd love to be a Third Amendment lawyer.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:56 (ten years ago)

I'm all in for the first amendment I think it's the bees knees

― Mordy, Friday, 13 March 2015 15:57 (ten years ago)

which of these are still in effect

― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:59 (ten years ago)

13th or the 21st ig

― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:00 (ten years ago)

13th or the 1st, hard to say

― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:01 (ten years ago)

14 duh

― 龜, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:02 (ten years ago)

hard to vote anything else but 13th tbh, can't argue with an amendment that outlawed owning other human beings

― marcos, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:06 (ten years ago)

i do love beer though

― marcos, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:06 (ten years ago)

vote w/ yr heart

― Mordy, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:07 (ten years ago)

Fourteenth Amendment the most pliant. Loved that development in con law whereby big business used due process clause to invalidate minimum wage, max work hours, child labor laws, etc.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:12 (ten years ago)

Eight Amendment, because America is a vengeful, bloodthirsty country, and without it we'd be hanging people for misdemeanor theft.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:46 (ten years ago)

I love the 3rd, like, a lot, it's one of those "wow, they have to make a law about this" laws that I like to muse on and think about. but the 13th amendment is easily the most important one imo.

― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:49 (ten years ago)

i guess the question is, which amendment would cause the most immediate sheer chaos if it was suddenly removed?

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:49 (ten years ago)

#2 for practical reasons (civil war), but imo #1 is first for good reason - you need it before you can build a lot of these other rights

― Mordy, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:52 (ten years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment

Probably a good thread for this - reminder that we came really, really close to having a gender equality amendment that ultimately died because maybe a hundred or so white dudes in state congresses didn't ratify it

― 龜, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:54 (ten years ago)

as Reagan said, women are better than women, therefore they don't need the ERA.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:31 (ten years ago)

number one with a bullet

― drash, Friday, 13 March 2015 17:37 (ten years ago)

went with 23rd

― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:38 (ten years ago)

the first, because I can't see many of the later amendments happening without that one

― Brad C., Friday, 13 March 2015 17:39 (ten years ago)

#18

― example (crüt), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:40 (ten years ago)

the only effective use of the constitution in american history

― example (crüt), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:40 (ten years ago)

21 in a landslide. In good times and in bad times, 21 is always there for you.

― Jeff, Friday, 13 March 2015 18:23 (ten years ago)

repealing the 12th would yield the funniest results

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 13 March 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)

18 duh

― billstevejim, Friday, 13 March 2015 20:14 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

Voted 1 because of all the FREEDOM it implies.

voted 4, miss it

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 00:07 (ten years ago)

The amendment is one of the least controversial of the Constitution and is rarely litigated, with the American Bar Association calling it the "runt piglet" of the U.S. Constitution.[1] As of 2015, it had never been the primary basis of a Supreme Court decision.[2][3][4]

― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 00:12 (ten years ago)

Corporations get on that, you're missing out on a potential revenue stream.

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― System, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

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