If anyone finds the constitutional amendments not frightening enough, I suggest a look at this ghastly automaton of the 1870s, which recalls the work of the Brothers Quay

The "Naturally Crawling Doll" is held by the Smithsonian Institution and by the American Museum of Natural History, where the action of the film "Night at the Museum" unfolded. Had this monster come to life, the film could safely have been transferred from family comedy to the category of good, proper horror. The inventors, as it happens, came to grief precisely because the doll was incapable of a long life: the mechanism, far from perfect, broke down very quickly, and the doll itself, stuffed with iron, was simply too heavy to become an ordinary toy after a breakage. And so the expected sensation remained one of the strange and frightening inventions inspired by the Victorian age. Then again, the toys of past eras often look terrifying to the modern viewer, as do most elements of everyday life.

Incidentally, the baby automaton was also produced in a people of colour model.