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The States and the Ratification Process Center for the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of History; Founders Online: Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States; The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Max Farrand 1869–1945
Under Article Five, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate ; or by a convention to propose amendments called by Congress at the request of two ...
On September 20, 1787, three days after its adoption by the Constitutional Convention, the drafted Constitution was submitted to the Congress of the Confederation for its endorsement. After eight days of debate, the opposing sides came to the first of many compromises that would define the ratification process.
And from Maryland, it needed to go back to Europe, according to the National Constitution Center. By Jan. 12, only seven of 13 states were legally represented, according to the Library of Congress.
The ratification method is chosen by Congress for each amendment. [126] State ratifying conventions were used only once, for the Twenty-first Amendment. [127] Presently, the Archivist of the United States is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S. Code § 106b.
The U.S. constitutional amendment process. The convention method of ratification described in Article V is an alternate route to considering the pro and con arguments of a particular proposed amendment, as the framers of the Constitution wanted a means of potentially bypassing the state legislatures in the ratification process.
Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process. When a constitutional amendment is sent to the states for ratification, the Archivist of the United States is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. § 106b. [5]
In ratification conventions, the anti-slavery delegates sometimes began as anti-ratification votes. Still, the Constitution "as written" was an improvement over the Articles from an abolitionist point of view. The Constitution provided for abolition of the slave trade but the Articles did not. The outcome could be determined gradually over time ...