"This may be the high-water mark for victims," said Representative Dennis E. Eckart, Democrat of Ohio, who proposed the unsuccessful amendment to remove all legal limits from the industry's liability.

During deliberations over the Lend-Lease Bill to supply the Allied war effort, she offered an unsuccessful amendment in February 1941 requiring specific congressional approval for sending U.S. troops abroad.

In September 1982, after the Charter had been enacted, the government of British Columbia approved of an unsuccessful amendment to section 7 that would protect property rights.

In the House of Lords, Lord Tebbit moved an unsuccessful amendment to leave other provisions of the Bill intact but forbid such marriages.

In 1975, Republican Senator Dewey F. Bartlett, tabling an ultimately unsuccessful legislative amendment to withdraw state funding for abortions, claimed: "A person who is raped very seldom becomes pregnant.

In 1997, he backed an unsuccessful amendment that would have changed the Constitution to allow non-Indian casinos.

A highly regarded judge, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, supported the unsuccessful amendment in the Lords debate.

As the ruling Conservatives suffered the most backlash from the unsuccessful constitutional amendments, the Liberals rapidly picked up support, and surged to a wide lead in opinion polling.

James McColl, the Labour MP for Widnes, introduced an unsuccessful amendment for the establishment of a local income tax.

He opposed an attempt by the Louisiana House to invoke the doctrine of interposition in regard to federal-state relations and authored an unsuccessful amendment that affirmed the state's recogniton of federal constitutional authority.