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  • Amending America: Proposed Amendments to the United States Constitution, 1787 to 2014

    Metadata Updated: November 12, 2020

    This dataset provides information about more than 11,000 proposed Constitutional amendments introduced in the United States Congress from 1787 to 2014. This dataset is a compilation of information from several Congressional publications as well as a search for Constitutional amendments on the Congress.gov website.

    Data available for each proposed amendment varies by source publication. Each entry may include a source of information, title or description of amendment, date of introduction, Congress, Congressional session, joint resolution number, sponsor name, sponsor state or territory, and the committee of referral.

    The National Archives and Records Administration created this dataset as part of the Amending America initiative. To prepare for the 2016 "Amending America" exhibition at the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., NARA volunteers and staff transcribed and edited over 11,000 entries representing proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as recorded by Congress.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 12, 2020

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NARA Data.json

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 12, 2020
    Publisher National Archives and Records Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier nara-amending-america
    Data First Published 2016-03-07
    Language us-EN
    Data Last Modified 2016-02-25
    Category civics, United States Constitution, Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, government accountability, amendments, history, research, transparency
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 393:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary http://www.archives.gov/open/amending-america/us-nara-amending-america-dataset-raw-datadictionary.pdf
    Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
    Harvest Object Id 812d917b-952a-48fb-8e3f-78f8ac2c0da0
    Harvest Source Id 89e2516b-042a-49e5-a7ff-601050456810
    Harvest Source Title NARA Data.json
    Homepage URL http://www.archives.gov/open/dataset-amendments.html
    License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 000:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9cde1e3d01b46d45f9e156253a3e2f556680864c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial United States
    Temporal 1787/2014

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