The Corwin Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that has never been adopted, but owing to the absence of a ratification...

joined the Republican Party in the 1850s. Corwin is best known for his sponsorship of the proposed Corwin Amendment, which was presented in an unsuccessful...

Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification...

The Thirteenth Amendment is the only ratified amendment signed by a President, although James Buchanan had signed the Corwin Amendment that the 36th Congress...

118. Lincoln did, however, support the Corwin Amendment, which would have barred any constitutional amendment "which will authorize or give to Congress...

The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that...

and that all should have an equal chance. (Cheers.)" The proposed Corwin amendment was passed by Congress before Lincoln became President and was ratified...

Congress proposed the Corwin Amendment, which if adopted would have prevented any federal legislation, including a future proposed amendment to the Constitution...

Reconstruction Amendments "were specifically designed as an expansion of federal power and an intrusion on state sovereignty." Crittenden Compromise Corwin Amendment...

the modification of the equal suffrage clause with the unratified Corwin Amendment, which contains a self-entrenching, unamendable provision. Law professor...