Friday, August 10, 2012

HT to the Archdruid

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

1 comment:

russell1200 said...

He was wrong about the using the convention to avoid the Civil War. The North fought to preserve The Union primarily - it was a mythic cause of some importance to them by that time. The Unionists correctly gauged that a Union that people could leave at their discretion would not be a union that lasted.