Blaine Amendment

(noun)

Constitutional amendments added to 39 state constitutions, forbidding direct government aid to educational institutions which have a religious affiliation. The amendments were intended to prevent the use of taxes for Catholic parochial schools.

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Examples of Blaine Amendment in the following topics:

  • Current Challenges for Education

    • These religious aspects raise the question of government funding school vouchers in states with Blaine Amendments in their constitution.

  • The Spread of Public Education

    • Starting from about 1876, thirty nine states (out of 50) passed a constitutional amendment to their state constitutions called the "Blaine Amendments" forbidding tax money to be used to fund parochial schools.

  • Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

    • Blaine for president in 1884, even though he had been implicated in a financial scandal.
    • Theodore Roosevelt stunned his upper class New York City friends by supporting Blaine in 1884; by rejecting the Mugwumps, he kept alive his Republican party leadership, clearing the way for his own political aspirations.
    • New England and the Northeastern United States had been a stronghold of the Republican Party since the Civil War era, but the Mugwumps considered Blaine to be an untrustworthy and fraudulent candidate.

  • The 19th Amendment

    • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
    • The 19th Amendment recognized the right of American women to vote.

  • The Second Amendment

    • The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
    • Ideals that helped to inspire the Second Amendment in part are symbolized by the minutemen.

  • The First Amendment

    • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
    • State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment

  • The 16th Amendment

    • The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
    • State the source of revenue made constitutional by the 16th Amendment

  • The Scurrilous Campaign

    • In 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses.
    • Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result.
    • They were correct, as reform-minded Mugwump Republicans denounced Blaine as corrupt and flocked to Cleveland.
    • Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did.
    • This 1884 cartoon in Puck magazine ridicules Blaine as the tattooed man, with many indelible scandals.

  • The Third Amendment

    • The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits, in peacetime or wartime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.
    • The Third Amendment protects citizens against the quartering of soldiers in private homes.

  • The 21st Amendment

    • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.