Ex-Sen. Birch Bayh, author of constitutional amendments and Title IX, dies at 91

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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/birch-bayh-indiana-senator/index.html

Happened a couple of days ago but not posted? This guy was the only person other than the founders to have authored more than one constitutional amendment!

One of the major achievements he will be known for is serving as the principal author of two successful constitutional amendments. The 25th Amendment, which passed in 1967, updated the succession of the presidency and vice presidency and what happens when the President is incapacitated. He also played a central role in the establishment of the 26th Amendment, passed in 1971, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
A principal reason he sought to lower the voting age was the Vietnam War, and the reality that many who fought in it were not old enough to vote for the presidency.
Bayh also played a hand in helping to put together several landmark pieces of legislation, most notably the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Separately, he was chiefly responsible for Title IX -- an amendment to a 1972 education act -- which said no one in the US, on the basis of sex, should be excluded from participating or be denied benefits or subjected to discrimination to any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

He also coauthored the proposed Bayh-Cellar amendment, which is the closest the US has ever come to abolishing the electoral college. It had support from President Nixon and at least 30 state legislatures, and it passed the House, passed the Senate committee, and was then filibustered to death.

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About removing the EC:

The lead objectors to the proposal were mostly Southern senators and conservatives from small states, both Democrats and Republicans, who argued abolishing the Electoral College would reduce their states'
political influence.

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3 terms and he accomplished more than Mcconnell's court rigging.

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For fuck's sake

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His son was in the Senate until this year, he lost Indiana last election. (evan bayh)

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that's kind of the point