Okay, no one in Congress seemed to take the idea that this needed to happen seriously. If it weren’t such a weird idea to begin with, Miller’s amendment would’ve likely been forgotten like every other proposed amendment. This wasn’t just a name change amendment, though. It was an amendment that covered other subjects like declaring that Congress would now “vote by electricity.” Also, the same amendment wanted to abolish the Army and Navy. Dude really wanted to cover a lot of unrelated things with one amendment.
To be fair, Lucas Miller might not deserve to be made fun of that badly. He submitted the amendment on behalf of constituents, so he might not have actually wanted to see a world where the electrified, army-less United States governs the entire planet. Maybe he was just being a good government official trying to enact the will of the people he served. Or maybe these ideas were all his. The world may never know.
Plus, Miller’s story is kind of a bummer in that it sort of just stops with the weird amendment. He could have been a more recognized figure in history. Miller was born in Greece in 1824 and was placed in an orphanage. He was adopted by an American colonel who was fighting in the Greek War of Independence. Miller’s adoptive father brought him back to the U.S., and he grew up to become a lawyer.
In 1891, after a long career in law, Miller was elected to serve in the House of Representatives. However, his American Dream (or, Earth Dream as he might prefer to say) was stopped because he has the rare distinction of only serving a single two-year term in the House. He was not reelected, so his legacy is a failed amendment that’s mildly humorous today. But, at least his proposal was memorable, unlike most of the thousands of others.
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