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Constitutional Amendment Process, National Archives and Records Administration

Reference sources on the Constitution and its Amendments

History of constitutional amendments

Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation
Main Ref KF4527 .U54 2002
Updated online via govinfo. A great place to start research on the history of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, since it includes citations to the following documents in the history of each Amendment:

Amendments to the Constitution: a brief legislative history, 1985 (print and online)
Govt Doc Y 4.J 89/2:S.prt.99-87
Includes Amendments through the 26th.

The Amendments Project. Edited by Jill Lepore and Tobias Resch.
"The Amendments Project (TAP) is a searchable archive of the full text of nearly every amendment to the U.S. Constitution proposed in Congress between 1789 and 2022 (more than 11,000 proposals); records of petitions introduced in Congress between 1789 and 1949 that propose, support, or oppose constitutional amendments (more than 9,000 petitions); and thousands of proposed amendments that never made it to Congress."