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  2. Article Five of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. constitutional amendment process. Thirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been approved by the Congress and sent to the states for ratification. Twenty-seven of these amendments have been ratified and are now part of the Constitution. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known ...

  3. Convention to propose amendments to the United States ...

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    A convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also referred to as an Article V Convention, state convention, [1] or amendatory convention is one of two methods authorized by Article Five of the United States Constitution whereby amendments to the United States Constitution may be proposed: on the Application of two thirds of the State legislatures (that is, 34 of the 50 ...

  4. This amendment would have heavily reduced America's ability to be involved in war, requiring a national referendum to confirm any declaration of war. Public support for the amendment was very robust through the 1930s, a period when isolationism was the prevailing mood in the United States. [17] [18] [19]

  5. This is how many amendments there are in the U.S ... - AOL

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    Article V deals with the amendment process. Article V lists two ways to amend the Constitution. The first is through the Congress. With a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate, the Congress ...

  6. What Would It Take to Amend the Constitution? - AOL

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    The Reconstruction-era 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments sought to remove the stain of slavery from laws and policies after the Civil War, while the 19th Amendment extended voting rights to women in ...

  7. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.

  8. Constitutional amendment - Wikipedia

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    An amendment approved by referendum is promulgated by the President of the Republic and becomes effective on the date provided for in it. 8. An amendment of the Constitution cannot be made unless a year has passed since the rejection by the Assembly of a proposed amendment on the same issue or three years have passed from its rejection by ...

  9. Ohio Senate goes after Supreme Court’s amendment ruling - AOL

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    The court said Yost’s role in the citizen-led amendment process is to determine whether a summary of the petition is fair and truthful without regard to the title.