Short reviews of pretty much whatever. Finally, you can discover if Frosted Flakes Gold has more social worth than Illmatic or Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
Nobody ever wanted to see a repeat of the disastrous presidency of FDR, so they decided that term limits should be set up for future presidents of the country. I guess that's a good thing, because Clinton probably could have been reelected, which would have been TERRIBLE! He lied under oath guys. Also, I'm sure Barack Obama could serve like 50 terms since he's the Antichrist and a master of devilish trickery.
Everybody who lives in Washington, DC is always like "Waa waa, I pay taxes but I don't get any particular person to represent my anger about those taxes to a governing body of some sort." Well, I guess in 1960 they either felt sorry for those people or wanted to shut them up for like two seconds because this amendment at least gives people in the District of Columbia the right to select electors for presidential elections. The one state to be a big dick and try to reject this amendment? You guessed it.
All the other amendments thus far in the countdown have been super boring, but now we finally get to a good one. After the Civil War, it was decreed by America that black people should be allowed to vote. The South was like "AHHH WHAT" so then they decided they would try to sneak around this new law by saying everybody had to pay a "poll tax" to vote, and it just so happened that a lot of black people were too poor to pay the amount (coincidence). Also, the tax would usually only be enforced when black people tried to vote, and the amount would fluctuate suddenly etc. Anyway, in 1965, a scant century later, America decided to put an end to that and passed this amendment, but you can't please everybody and Wyoming, Arizona, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, and *ahem*texas*ahem* decided they'd show their resistance/dickery by never ratifying it to this day (your bad, fellas).
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is another boring clerical one that basically clarifies some issues regarding presidential incapacity and vice-presidential succession. SNOOZE. What it means is that when Bush had colonoscopies he invoked this amendment to make Cheney president for like an hour. All the high-numbered amendments are tres boring. You know what kind of amendment they could make that would be one of those nice, pride inducing ones like the slavery sucks, women can vote ones? How about something about the government not being allowed to restrict personal rights and freedoms based on sexual preference? I bet that would get a rating somewhere in the nineties, Congress.
The Twenty-sixth Amendment was an ok amendment because it standardized the voting age to 18 in the entire country. It was ratified in 1972, and I guess some people were upset because a dude could be drafted to fight commies but in his state he might not be able to vote for three years, hence the old protest song line "Old enough to kill, but not to vote" or some such nonsense. Anyway, I guess the argument against this was that an 18 year old wouldn't know enough to vote anyway, which is total bullshit because a) they don't vote even now that they have the right, and b) nobody knows enough to vote. I mean, my little illustration there could be anybody from age 15 to 95 in America, and that ain't just because I'm no Picasso. In conclusion, I guess this is a good amendment if you can vote, but I can't so fuck this one.
This amendment is pretty boring. Basically it says the government can't change the salary of senators or representatives until those senators or representatives vote on it. I guess it's good because one senator can't just suddenly say that everybody gets a million dollars, although I don't really know how having senators voting on it might stop that from happening.
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