About the Senate & the U.S. Constitution | Historical Highlights & Resources

Amendments

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Measures Proposed to Amend the Constitution

Constitution Day

• Constitution Day

• On Equal Footing: The Constitution, the Senate, and the Expanding United States

• "We the Undersigned": Suffragists Petition the Senate

• Mixed Government, Bicameralism, and the Creation of the U.S. Senate

• Treatymaking Power and George Washington's Visit to the Senate

Other Resources:

• Resources on the Constitution (PDF)

• The Federalist Papers (loc.gov)

Historical Highlights

• Congressional Pay Sep 14, 1789

• Congress Submits the First Constitutional Amendments to the States Sep 25, 1789

• The First Monday in December Dec 2, 1793

• Senator Resigns to Protest Loyalty Oath Jan 29, 1864

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