The Child Labor Amendment<span> is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the </span>United States Constitution<span> that would specifically authorize </span>Congress<span> to regulate "labor of persons under eighteen years of age". The amendment was proposed in 1924 following </span>Supreme Court<span> rulings in 1918 and 1922 that federal laws regulating and taxing goods produced by employees under the ages of 14 and 16 were unconstitutional.</span>
