Download or read book Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to Provide a Procedure by which the States May Propose Constitutional Amendments written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Article V Convention for Proposing Constitutional Amendments written by Thomas H. Neale and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philadelphia Convention of 1787 provided two methods of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In the first, Congress, by two-thirds vote in both houses, proposes amendments to the states. If three-fourths of the states (38 at present) vote to ratify the amendment, it becomes part of the Constitution. Since 1789, Congress has proposed 33 amendments by this method, 27 of which have been adopted. In the second method, if the legislatures of two-thirds of the states (34 at present) apply, Congress must call a convention to consider and propose amendments, which must meet the same 38-state ratification requirement. This alternative, known as the Article V Convention, has not been implemented to date. Several times during the 20th century, organized groups promoted a convention that they hoped would propose amendments to the states, or to “prod” Congress to propose amendments they favored. The most successful was the movement for direct election of Senators, which helped prod Congress to propose the 17th Amendment. The most recent, which promoted a convention to consider a balanced federal budget amendment, gained 32 applications, just two short of the constitutional threshold. When the balanced budget amendment campaign failed in the 1980s, interest in the convention option faded and remained largely dormant for more than 20 years. Within the past decade, interest in the Article V Convention process has reawakened: several policy advocacy organizations have publicized the Article V Convention option, particularly as an alternative to what they portray as a legislative and policy deadlock at the federal level. An important issue in the contemporary context is the fact that advances in communications technology could facilitate the emergence of technology-driven issue advocacy groups favorable to this phenomenon. The rise of instant interpersonal communications, email, and other social media helped facilitate the rapid growth of such groups as MoveOn.org, the Tea Party movement, and, most recently, Occupy Wall Street. These tools could be harnessed to promote a credible campaign in a much shorter time than was the case with previous convention advocacy movements. Reviewing the history of the Article V Convention alternative, the record of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 clearly demonstrated the founders' original intent. During the convention, they agreed that a second mode of amendment was needed to balance the grant of amendatory power to Congress. This method, clearly identified in Article V as co-equal to congressional proposal of amendments, empowered the people, acting through their state legislatures, to summon a convention that would have equal authority to propose an amendment or amendments, which would then be presented to the states for ratification. Only the states can summon an Article V Convention, by application from their legislatures. Some of the issues concerning this process include procedures within the state legislatures; the scope and conditions of applications for a convention; steps in submitting applications to Congress; and the role of the state governors in the process. This report identifies and examines these issues.

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Download or read book Proposal and Ratification of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Fixing the Commencement of the Terms of President and Vice President and Members of Congress and Fixing the Time of the Assembling of Congress written by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on election of president, vice president and etc and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to Provide a Procedure by which the States May Propose Constitutional Amendments written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposal and Ratification of Amendments to the Constitution of the U S written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 5.

Download or read book Federal Constitutional Convention Procedures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ratification of Constitutional Amendments by Popular Vote written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Introduced in Congress from the 69th Congress 2d Session Through the 84th Congress 2d Session December 6 1926 to January 3 1957 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Proposed Constitutional Amendments Relating to the Fixing of the Time for the Commencement of the Terms of President Vice President and Members of Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Election of President, Vice-President, and Representatives in Congress and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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