Contested, Unratified and Inoperative Amendments

[Contested Article.]

[Proposed 1810; Probably Ratified 1819]

If any Citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any Title of Nobility or Honour, or shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, Pension, Office or Emolument of any kind whatever, from any Emperor, King, Prince or foreign Power, such Person shall cease to be a Citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any Office of Trust or Profit under them, or either of them.

[Unratified Article.]

[Proposed 1861; Signed by President Lincoln; Unratified]

Article Thirteen. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.

[Unratified Article.]

[Proposed 1926; Unratified]

Article

Section. 1. The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen

years of age.

Section. 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of State laws

shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.

[Inoperative Article.]

[Proposed 1972; Expired Unratified 1982]

Article

Section. 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on

account of sex.

Section. 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section. 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

[Inoperative Article.]

[Proposed 1978; Expired Unratified 1985]

Article

Section. 1. For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and

article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated

as though it were a State.

Section. 2. The exercise of the rights and powers conferred under this article shall be by the people of the District

constituting the seat of government, and as shall be provided by the Congress.

Section. 3. The twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section. 4. This article shall be inoperative, unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution

by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.