Word: amendmenteers
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A proposal, offered to the states for ratification, for an Amendment to the Constitution to give Congress power to regulate and prohibit Child Labor.
The proposed Amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age, hung on in the Senate. The House had approved it. The Senate was expected to approve it ? if it could be brought to a vote.
The last qualification seemed remote of fulfillment ; every time a Senator asked for consent to consider the Amendment, another Senator objected. Then Senator Shortridge of California gained consent for its consideration. His victory was not unopposed, but he was victor in a verbal sparring match and a date was set...
"It goes farther in extending the power of the Federal Government than the 18th Amendment. I think it will do more to change the form of our government than any amendment since those that followed soon after the Civil War.
When the vote was taken, the amendment was passed, as had been expected. The vote was 61 to 23, five more than the two-thirds necessary in such a case. The measure now goes to the states. If three-fourths of them approve it, it will become the 20th Amendment...