Editing Child Labor Amendment

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{{Short description|Proposed U.S. Constitutional Amendment allowing Congress to regulate child labor}}
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The '''Child Labor Amendment''' (CLA) is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] that would specifically authorize [[United States Congress|Congress]] to regulate "labor of persons under eighteen years of age". The amendment was proposed on June 2, 1924,<ref name=ratification>65 ''Congressional Record'' 10142</ref> following [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] rulings in 1918 and 1922 that federal laws regulating and taxing goods produced by employees under the ages of 14 and 16 were unconstitutional.

The majority of the state legislatures ratified the amendment by the mid-1930s; however, it has not been ratified by the requisite three-fourths of the states according to [[Article Five of the United States Constitution|Article V of the Constitution]] and none has ratified it since 1937. Interest in the amendment waned following the passage of the [[Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938]], which implemented [[child labor laws in the United States|federal regulation of child labor]] with the Supreme Court's approval in 1941.

The amendment was itself the subject of a 1939 Supreme Court decision, ''[[Coleman v. Miller]]'' (307 U.S. 433), regarding its putative expiration. As Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the amendment is still pending before the states. Ratification by an additional 10 states would be necessary for this amendment to [[Coming into force|come into force]]. In recent years, lawmakers in a handful of states have introduced resolutions to ratify the amendment.

==Text==
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'''Section 1'''. The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.

'''Section 2'''. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Centennial Edition, Interim Edition: Analysis of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 26, 2013|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|access-date=July 11, 2014|location=Washington, DC|page=50|year=2013}}</ref>}}

==Background==
{{See also | Child labor laws in the United States}}
With the [[Keating–Owen Act]] of 1916, the [[United States Congress]] had attempted to regulate [[interstate commerce]] involving goods produced by employees under the ages of 14 or 16, depending on the type of work. The [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] found this law unconstitutional in ''[[Hammer v. Dagenhart]]'' (1918). Later that year, Congress attempted to levy a tax on businesses with employees under the ages of 14 or 16 (again depending on the type of work), which was struck down by the Supreme Court in ''[[Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.|Bailey v. Drexel Furniture]]'' (1922). It became apparent that a constitutional amendment would be necessary for such legislation to overcome the Court's objections.<ref name="Keating">{{cite web |url=https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=59 |title=Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 |work=Our Documents |publisher=National Archives |access-date=October 20, 2012}}</ref>

==Legislative history==

The amendment was offered by [[Ohio]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Congressman [[Israel Moore Foster]] on April 26, 1924, during the [[Sixty-eighth United States Congress|68th Congress]], in the form of House Joint Resolution No. 184.

House Joint Resolution No. 184 was adopted by the [[United States House of Representatives]] on April 26, 1924, with a vote of 297 yeas, 69 nays, 2 absent and 64 not voting.<ref>65 ''Congressional Record'' 7294–7295</ref> It was then adopted by the [[United States Senate]] on June 2, 1924, with a vote of 61 yeas, 23 nays and 12 not voting.<ref name=ratification></ref> And with that, the proposed constitutional amendment was submitted to the [[State legislature (United States)|state legislatures]] for ratification pursuant to [[Article Five of the United States Constitution|Article V]] of the Constitution.

==Ratification history==
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Ratification status of the Child Labor Amendment
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[[File:Child Labor Amendment.jpg|220px|upright=1.5|thumb|The Child Labor Amendment as passed by Congress]]
Having been approved by Congress, the proposed amendment was sent to the [[State legislature (United States)|state legislatures]] for ratification and was ratified by the following 28 states:<ref name="VCCG">{{cite book|title=The Constitution of the United States and Amendments Thereto|year=1961|publisher=Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government|pages=68–69|editor=James J. Kilpatrick}}</ref>
# [[Arkansas]] – June 28, 1924
# [[California]] – January 8, 1925
# [[Arizona]] – January 29, 1925
# [[Wisconsin]] – February 25, 1925
# [[Montana]] – February 11, 1927
# [[Colorado]] – April 28, 1931
# [[Oregon]] – January 31, 1933
# [[Washington (state)|Washington]] – February 3, 1933
# [[North Dakota]] – March 4, 1933 (After State Senate rejection – January 28, 1925)
# [[Ohio]] – March 22, 1933
# [[Michigan]] – May 10, 1933
# [[New Hampshire]] – May 17, 1933 (After rejection – March 18, 1925)
# [[New Jersey]] – June 12, 1933
# [[Illinois]] – June 30, 1933
# [[Oklahoma]] – July 5, 1933
# [[Iowa]] – December 5, 1933 (After State House rejection – March 11, 1925)
# [[West Virginia]] – December 12, 1933
# [[Minnesota]] – December 14, 1933 (After rejection – April 14, 1925)
# [[Maine]] – December 16, 1933 (After rejection – April 10, 1925)
# [[Pennsylvania]] – December 21, 1933 (After rejection – April 16, 1925)
# [[Wyoming]] – January 31, 1935
# [[Utah]] – February 5, 1935 (After rejection – February 4, 1925)
# [[Idaho]] – February 7, 1935 (After State House rejection – February 7, 1925)
# [[Indiana]] – February 8, 1935 (After State Senate rejection – February 5, 1925 and State House rejection – March 5, 1925)
# [[Kentucky]] – January 13, 1937 (After rejection – March 24, 1926)
# [[Nevada]] – January 29, 1937
# [[New Mexico]] – February 12, 1937 (After rejection – 1935)
# [[Kansas]] – February 25, 1937 (After rejection – January 30, 1925) 

During the 1920s and 1930s, the following fifteen state legislatures rejected the Child Labor Amendment and did not subsequently ratify it:
# [[Connecticut]] – February 11, 1925 (State Senate Rejection — February 5, 1925 and State House rejection – February 11, 1925)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067981053&view=1up&seq=5&q1=child%20labor |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Connecticut |publisher=State of Connecticut |year=1925 |editor-last=Hickey |editor-first=Daniel |pages=418 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2881306&view=1up&seq=5&q1=child%20labor |title=Journal of the Senate of the State of Connecticut |publisher=State of Connecticut |year=1925 |editor-last=Baker |editor-first=J. Frederick |pages=379 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Delaware]] – 1925 (State Senate and State House Rejection — January 28 1925)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.33314192 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives at a session of the General Assembly |publisher=Milford Chronicle Publishing Company |year=1925 |pages=126 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.33314257 |title=Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware, at a session of the General Assembly |publisher=Milford Chronicle Publishing Company |year=1925 |pages=90 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Florida]] – 1925 (State Senate Rejection — April 15, 1925 and State House Rejection April 29, 1925)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Journals/BoundJournals/1925 |title=Journal of the State Senate of Florida of the Session of 1925 |publisher=F. J. Appleyard |year=1925 |pages=172 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://sb.flleg.gov/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm$vid=House:all |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Florida |publisher=Appleyard |pages=984 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] – August 6, 1924<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0001991488&view=1up&seq=7 |title=Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia |publisher=Stein Printing Co., State Printers |year=1924 |pages=833 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Louisiana]] – 1924, 1934 and 1936
# [[Maryland]] – March 18, 1927<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archives of Maryland, Volume 0569, Page 1643 – Session Laws, 1927 |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000569/html/am569--1643.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=msa.maryland.gov}}</ref>
# [[Massachusetts]] – Rejected by Voters in a referendum on November 4, 1924<ref>{{Cite web |title=Massachusetts Federal Child Labor Law, Question 7 (1924) |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Federal_Child_Labor_Law,_Question_7_(1924) |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Missouri]] – 1925 (State Senate Rejection — March 20, 1925 and State House Rejection — March 3, 1925)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/senatej/id/113452/rec/108 |title=Journal of the Senate of the State of Missouri |year=1925 |pages=773 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/housej/id/65535/rec/82 |title=Journal of the House of the State of Missouri |year=1925 |pages=705 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[North Carolina]] – August 23, 1924<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p249901coll22/id/236104 |title=Public Laws and Resolutions Enacted by the Extra Session of the General Assembly of 1924 |publisher=Mitchell Printing Company |year=1924 |pages=219 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[South Carolina]] – 1925 (State Senate Rejection — January 27, 1925 and State House Rejection — January 21, 1925)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112107048511&view=1up&seq=10 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the First Session of the 77th General Assembly of the State of South Carolina |publisher=Joint Committee on Printing |year=1925 |pages=94 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.095880704&view=1up&seq=1 |title=Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina |publisher=Gonzales and Bryan |year=1925 |pages=104 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[South Dakota]] – 1925, 1933 and 1937 
# [[Tennessee]] – 1925
# [[Texas]] – 1925 (State Senate Rejection — January 26, 1925 and State House Rejection — January 27, 1925)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://lrl.texas.gov/collections/journals/journalsSenate39.cfm |title=Journal of the Texas State Senate |year=1925 |pages=127–8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://lrl.texas.gov/collections/journals/journalsHouse39.cfm |title=Journal of the Texas House of Representatives. |year=1925 |pages=206 |language=en}}</ref>
# [[Vermont]] – 1925
# [[Virginia]] – 1926<ref name="VCCG"/>
Although the act, on the part of state legislatures, of "rejecting" a proposed constitutional amendment has no legal recognition, such action does have political ramifications.

Of the 48 states in the Union during the 1920s and 1930s, two have taken no action of record on the amendment: [[Alabama]] and [[Rhode Island]].  Meanwhile in Nebraska, that state's [[Nebraska Senate|Senate]] voted to ratify the CLA in 1929 (Nebraska's Legislature did not become [[unicameral]] until 1937).  In Mississippi, that state's [[Mississippi Senate|Senate]] voted to ratify the CLA in 1934.  In [[New York (state)|New York]], that state's [[New York Senate|Senate]] voted to ratify the CLA in 1937.  And in 2024, the [[Connecticut House of Representatives]] voted to ratify the CLA.  As to [[Alaska]] and [[Hawaii]]&mdash;both of which became states in 1959&mdash;the [[Hawaii Senate]] voted to ratify the CLA in 2021 and again in 2022.<ref name="VCCG"/>

===Renewed ratification attempts and expressions of support===
In 2021 and 2022, a concurrent resolution to ratify the Child Labor Amendment passed in the Hawaii Senate with bipartisan support but stalled in the [[Hawaii House of Representatives]].<ref name="Hawaii 2021" >{{Cite web
 |url= https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SCR&billnumber=99&year=2021
 |title=SCR99 SD1 HD1 (2021)
 |work=[[Hawaii State Legislature]]
 |access-date=8 July 2022
}}</ref><ref name="Hawaii 2022" >{{Cite web
 |url= https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SCR&billnumber=8&year=2022
 |title=SCR8 (2022)
 |work=[[Hawaii State Legislature]]
 |access-date=8 July 2022
}}</ref> In 2024, a resolution to ratify the amendment passed in the Connecticut House of Representatives but was not brought up for a vote in the [[Connecticut Senate]].<ref name="Kamphausen 2024">{{cite web | last=Kamphausen | first=Hudson | title=House Votes Yes On Federal Child Labor Amendment, Waits For Senate | website=CT News Junkie | date=2024-05-01 | url=https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2024/05/01/house-votes-yes-on-federal-child-labor-amendment-waits-for-senate/ | access-date=2024-05-05}}</ref><ref name="Connecticut" >{{Cite web |url= https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HJ00217&which_year=2024 |title=RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES PERMITTING CONGRESS TO REGULATE CHILD LABOR |work=[[Connecticut General Assembly]] |access-date=8 March 2024 }}</ref> Since 2018, ratification resolutions have also been introduced in [[New York State Legislature|New York]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=New York State Assembly {{!}} Bill Search and Legislative Information|url=https://www.nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A06245&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Committee&nbspVotes=Y&Floor&nbspVotes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y&LFIN=Y&Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript=Y|access-date=2020-07-14|website=www.nyassembly.gov}}</ref> [[Rhode Island General Assembly|Rhode Island]],<ref name="Rhode Island" >{{Cite web
 |url= https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText21/SenateText21/S0438.pdf
 |title=2021 - S0438
 |work=[[Rhode Island Senate]]
 |access-date=8 July 2022
}}</ref> [[Nebraska Legislature|Nebraska]],<ref name="Nebraska" >{{Cite web
 |url= https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=50145
 |title=LR5 – Legislative resolution to ratify an amendment to the Constitution to the United States relating to regulation of child labor
 |work=[[Nebraska Legislature]]
 |access-date=6 January 2023
}}</ref> and [[Maryland House of Delegates|Maryland]],<ref name="Maryland">{{cite web | title=HJ0007 | website=Maryland General Assembly | url=https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HJ0007?ys=2024RS | access-date=2024-03-17}}</ref> as was a resolution in [[Minnesota Legislature|Minnesota]] reaffirming that state's ratification from 1933.<ref name="Minnesota">{{Cite web |url= https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF3275&ssn=0&y=2023 |title=HF 3275 |work=[[Minnesota Legislature]] |access-date=8 March 2024 }}</ref>

In 2024, the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]] adopted&mdash;without action of the [[New Hampshire Senate]]&mdash;a unicameral House Resolution reaffirming support for the 1933 ratification of the Child Labor Amendment by the full [[New Hampshire General Court]] which, despite its judicial sound, is the official name of New Hampshire's legislature.  That unicameral House Resolution was formally received on November 14, 2024, by the United States Senate&mdash;as noted in the ''[[Congressional Record]]'' of that date&mdash;and was duly referred to the Senate's Committee on the Judiciary as reflected in the ''Record''.

Supporters of ratification, such as [[University of San Diego School of Law]] professor Jessica Heldman and ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' columnist [[Michael Hiltzik]], have argued that the amendment could strengthen existing federal child labor protections, especially with some states loosening their child labor laws in recent years.<ref name="Heldman 2023">{{cite web | last=Heldman | first=Jessica K. | title=There is More Work to Be Done to Eliminate Oppressive Child Labor | website=American Constitution Society | date=2023-05-10 | url=https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/there-is-more-work-to-be-done-to-eliminate-oppressive-child-labor/ | access-date=2024-03-17}}</ref><ref name="Hiltzik 2023">{{cite web | last=Hiltzik | first=Michael | title=Column: The carnage from the rollback of child labor laws is just starting | website=Los Angeles Times | date=2023-07-24 | url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-07-24/the-carnage-from-the-rollback-of-child-labor-laws-is-just-starting | access-date=2024-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104042615/https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-07-24/the-carnage-from-the-rollback-of-child-labor-laws-is-just-starting | archive-date=2024-01-04}}</ref><ref name="v029">{{cite magazine | title=The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment | magazine=TIME | date=2024-05-13 | url=https://time.com/6970389/child-labor-amendment-forgotten/ | access-date=2024-05-14}}</ref> Nebraska State Senator [[Carol Blood]], who introduced a resolution to ratify the amendment, stated that it would only be "ratifying what is already in law", and making a statement that Nebraska "missed an opportunity to do better".<ref name="Wendling 2023">{{cite web | last=Wendling | first=Zach | title=Supporters of child labor resolution say it could make Nebraska 'new champion' • Nebraska Examiner | website=Nebraska Examiner | date=2023-03-03 | url=https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/supporters-of-child-labor-resolution-say-it-could-make-nebraska-new-champion/ | access-date=2024-03-25}}</ref> In Connecticut, a ratification resolution was supported by the state's [[AFL-CIO]] chapter and other [[labor union|union]] leaders.<ref name="Melita 2024">{{cite web | last=Melita | first=Rick | title=Revisiting Child Labor Laws in the New Gilded Age: A Call for Action | website=CT News Junkie | date=2024-03-04 | url=https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2024/03/04/op-ed-revisiting-child-labor-laws-in-the-new-gilded-age-a-call-for-action/ | access-date=2024-03-17}}</ref><ref name="Connecticut Testimony">{{cite web |url=https://www.cga.ct.gov/aspx/CGADisplayTestimonies/CGADisplayTestimony.aspx?bill=HJ-00217&doc_year=2024 |title=Testimony For Bill Number HJ-00217 In All Committees | date=2024-03-25
 |website=Connecticut General Assembly |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325130433/https://www.cga.ct.gov/aspx/CGADisplayTestimonies/CGADisplayTestimony.aspx?bill=HJ-00217&doc_year=2024 |access-date=2024-03-25 |archive-date=March 25, 2024 |quote=}}</ref> The amendment is supported by the [[Child Labor Coalition]].<ref name="w429">{{cite web | title=Put Maryland on the Correct Side of History: Ratify the Child Labor Amendment of 1924 | url=https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/cmte_testimony/2024/hru/1EreC8FqGIiL6PCx9HE4qUXtkoIOraVNr.pdf | website=Maryland General Assembly| author=Children's Advocacy Institute | access-date=2024-05-09}}</ref>

Presently, there being 50 states in the Union, the amendment will remain inoperative unless it is ratified by the legislatures of an additional 10 states to reach the necessary threshold of approval by 38 state legislatures.

==Judicial history==

Only five states adopted the amendment in the 1920s. Ten of the states initially balked, then re-examined their position during the 1930s and decided to ratify. These delayed decisions resulted in many controversies and resulted in the 1939 Supreme Court case ''[[Coleman v. Miller]]'' (307 U.S. 433) in which it was determined that the Child Labor Amendment remained pending before the state legislatures because the 68th Congress did not specify any deadline. The ruling also formed the basis of the unusual and belated ratification of the [[Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution|27th Amendment]] which was proposed by Congress in 1789 and ratified more than two centuries later in 1992 by the legislatures of at least three-fourths of the 50 states.

The common legal opinion on federal child labor regulation reversed in the 1930s. Congress passed the [[Fair Labor Standards Act]] in 1938 regulating the employment of those under 16 or 18 years of age. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of that law in ''[[United States v. Darby Lumber Co.]]'' (1941), which overturned ''Hammer v. Dagenhart'' – one of the key decisions that had motivated the proponents of the Child Labor Amendment. After this shift, the amendment has been described as "moot"<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0IGUhxqUuYC&pg=PA63 |title=Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2002 |first=John R. |last=Vile |page=63 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2003 |isbn=9781851094288}}</ref> and lost the momentum that had once propelled it;<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M382Q2ORQWQC&pg=PA125 |title=The Living Constitution |pages=125–126 |first=David A. |last=Strauss |year=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195377279}}</ref> hence, the movement for it has advanced no further.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/americanconstitu0000grif |url-access=registration |title=American Constitutionalism: From Theory to Politics |first=Stephen M. |last=Griffin |author1-link=Stephen M. Griffin |year=1998 |isbn=9780691002408 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanconstitu0000grif/page/89 89]}}</ref>

If ever ratified by the required number of [[United States|U.S.]] state [[legislature]]s, the Child Labor Amendment would repose in the [[Congress of the United States]] shared jurisdiction with the states to legislate on the subject of [[child labor]].

==Opposition==

In 1933, [[J. Gresham Machen]], who was a major voice at the time for Evangelical Fundamentalism and conservative politics, delivered a paper called ''Mountains and Why We Love Them'', which was read before a group of ministers in Philadelphia on November 27, 1933. In passing, Machen mentions the CLA and rhetorically asks "Will the so-called 'Child Labor Amendment' and other similar measures be adopted, to the destruction of all the decencies and privacies of the home?"<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gresham Machen|first1=J.|title=Mountains and Why We Love Them|journal=Christianity Today|date=August 1934}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Organized labor}}
* [[List of amendments to the United States Constitution]], amendments sent to the states, both ratified and unratified
* [[List of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution]], amendments proposed in Congress but never sent to the states for ratification

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://cdn.mises.org/10_2_3_0.pdf The Child Labor Amendment Debate of the 1920s], Bill Kaufmann, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, November 1992
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101121064212/https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719381,00.html Labor: Children], a 1924 ''Time'' magazine article on the subject {{subscription required}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111026094706/https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719693,00.html Labor: A 20th Amendment?], a 1925 ''Time'' magazine article discussing 1920s attempts to ratify the Amendment {{subscription required}}

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