Article V, Clause 1

The Federalist and Federalist essays

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  Cassius 11, ¶ 8

  That 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 states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, or by…

  Cites "Article V." and reproduces the whole article nearly verbatim.

• cited bySuggested
  Cassius 11, ¶ 9

  The 5th article also provides, that the states may propose any alterations which they see fit, and that Congress shall take measures for having them carried into effect.

  Cites "The 5th article" and says alterations "must be ratified by three-fourths of the states," referring to the article quoted in the preceding paragraph.

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  Citizen of New Haven 2, ¶ 17

  Perhaps a more perfect one could not be formed on mere speculation ; and if upon experience it shall be found deficient, it provides an easy and peaceable mode to make amendments.

  The paragraph names the Constitution's provision of a mode of making amendments, which is Article V.

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  A Friend to the Constitution, ¶ 10

  If there are errors, it should be remembered, that the seeds of reformation are sown in the work itself, and the concurrence of two-thirds of the Congress may, at any time, introduce alterations and amendments.

  In the passage of Wilson's speech that the piece quotes, the provision by which "the concurrence of two-thirds of the Congress" may introduce amendments is named so specifically that only Article V fits.

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  Landholder 5, ¶ 18

  Provision is made for an alteration if, on trial, it be found necessary.

  Refers to the provision the Constitution makes for its own alteration; this article is the only one that provides for amendments.

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  A Native of Virginia, Article V, ¶ 1

  …deem neceſſary, ſhall propoſe amendments to this Conſtitution; or, •• the application of the Legiſlatures of two-thirds of the ſeveral •tates, ſhall call a Convention for propoſing amendments, which 〈◊〉 either caſe, ſhall be valid to all intents and purpoſes, as part 〈◊〉 this Conſtitution, when ratified by the Legiſlatures of three •••rths of the ſeveral States, or by Conventions in three-fourths •••reof, as the one or the other mode of ratification…

  The paragraph prints Article V of the Constitution as signed; the quoted words are the same as the clause's (apart from capitals and the long s), though the pamphlet's punctuation differs in places.

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  A Native of Virginia, Article V, ¶ 2

  The •embers of the Convention did not pretend to infallibility: •hey conſidered that experience might bring to light inconve•iences which human wiſdom could not foreſee—And this ar•cle wiſely provides for amendments, the neceſſity of which 〈◊〉 may diſcover.

  The paragraph says "this article" provides for amendments, the article printed above it (Article V).

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  A Native of Virginia, Article V, ¶ 3

  …that they ••uld not foreſee every contingency, and guard againſt every ••ſſible inconvenience: Senſible that new circumſtances might ariſe, which would render alterations in the government neceſſary; have declard that whenever two-thirds of both Houſes of Congreſs, or two-thirds of the State Legiſlatures, ſhall concur in deeming amendments neceſſary, a general Convention ſhall be appointed, the reſult of which, when ratified by three fourths of the Legiſlatures, ſhall become a part of the Federal Government.

  The paragraph restates the amendment procedure: two thirds of both houses or of the state legislatures, a convention, and ratification by three fourths, which is Article V.

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  A Native of Virginia, Article V, ¶ 4

  If the ſyſtem be reduced to practice, and experience ſhall diſcover important defects, there can be no doubt but that two-thirds of Congreſs will be ſenſible to them, and will point them out to the different Legiſlatures.

  The paragraph discusses how two thirds of Congress or of the legislatures would propose amendments and call a convention, the procedure of Article V.

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  James Wilson's Speech, ¶ 8

  If there are errors, it ſhould be remembered, that the ſeeds of reformation are ſown in the work itſelf, and the concurrence of two thirds of the congreſs may at any time introduce alterations and amendments.

  The paragraph says that "the concurrence of two thirds of the congress may at any time introduce alterations and amendments," which describes the first power in Article V; the article is not named.

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  Federalist No. 39, ¶ 15

  If we try the Constitution by its last relation to the authority by which amendments are to be made, we find it neither wholly NATIONAL nor wholly FEDERAL.

  Takes up "the authority by which amendments are to be made" and "the mode provided by the plan of the convention," the amendment procedure of the fifth article.

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  Federalist No. 43, ¶ 28

  “To provide for amendments to be ratified by three fourths of the States under two exceptions only.

  Gives in quotation marks a shortened form of this article as the eighth of the fourth class of powers, "amendments to be ratified by three fourths of the States under two exceptions," and then names one exception, "the equality of suffrage in the Senate."

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  Federalist No. 85, ¶ 13

  By the fifth article of the plan, the Congress will be obliged “on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the States, which at present amount to nine, to call a convention for proposing amendments, which shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof.” The words of this article are peremptory.

  The paragraph quotes this article in quotation marks, identifying it as "the fifth article of the plan," and quotes it again as "shall call a convention."

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  Federalist No. 85, note 2

  It may rather be said TEN, for though two thirds may set on foot the measure, three fourths must ratify.

  The footnote names the "two thirds" that may "set on foot" an amendment and the "three fourths" that "must ratify," the proportions of this article, which the paper quotes in its thirteenth paragraph.

Anti-Federalist essays

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  Centinel 2, ¶ 32

  6) it is provided, that if two-thirds of both houses of the federal legislature shall propose them, or when two thirds of the several States by their legislatures shall apply for them, the federal assembly shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which when ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or conventions, as Congress shall see best, shall control and alter the proposed confederation.

  The paragraph describes the amendment procedure of Article V in detail, partly in its words; it labels it "(Art. 6)," so the link rests on the description, not the number.

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  Centinel 3, ¶ 21

  ' ' And by the fifth article this restraint is not to be removed by any future convention. We are told that the objects of this article are slaves, and that it is inserted to secure to the southern states the right of introducing negroes for twentyone years…

  The paragraph cites "the fifth article" for the bar on amending the importation clause before 1808, which is the proviso of Article V.

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  Federal Farmer 4, ¶ 17

  It may also be worthy our examination, how far the provision for amending this plan, when it shall be adopted, is of any importance.

  Names "the provision for amending this plan" and says amendments need "two-thirds of the congress, or two-thirds of the legislature of the several states," which is this article.

Other writings

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  Connecticut convention, January 9, 1788, ¶ 7

  The clause to which I refer is that which provides that, whenever two thirds of Congress, or a convention to be called at the instance of two thirds of the states, shall propose amendments, and they be agreed to by three fourths of the states, such amendments shall be valid, as part of the Constitution.

  The speaker identifies "the clause" that provides a remedy for defects by describing its two-thirds proposal and three-fourths agreement; no number is given.

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  Massachusetts convention, February 6, 1788, ¶ 26

  The fifth article provides for amendments.

  The speaker refers to "the fifth article" as the one that provides for amendments; the reference is by number.

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  Massachusetts convention, February 6, 1788, ¶ 61

  …in the behalf of the people of this commonwealth, enjoin it upon their representatives in Congress, at all times, until the alterations and provisions aforesaid have been considered, agreeably to the 5th article of the said Constitution, to exert all their influence, and use all reasonable and legal methods, to obtain a ratification of the said alterations and provisions, in such manner as is provided in…

  The Convention's resolution refers to considering the alterations "agreeably to the 5th article of the said Constitution"; the reference is by number.

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  Massachusetts convention, January 30, 1788, ¶ 16

  After the 5th article was read at the table,—

  The reporter records that "the 5th article" was read at the table; the reference is by number.

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  Massachusetts convention, January 30, 1788, ¶ 48

  …last speaking, that the reason why no provision for the introduction of amendments was made in the authorities quoted by the honorable gentleman, was, that they were provided for in the 5th article of the Constitution.

  The speaker says amendments are provided for in "the 5th article of the Constitution"; the reference is by number.

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  North Carolina convention, July 29, 1788, ¶ 42

  The proposition for amendments may arise from Congress itself, when two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary.

  Iredell describes the manner of making amendments, repeating the clause's words on two thirds of both houses.

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  Pennsylvania convention, November 28, 1787, ¶ 11

  And in the articles respecting amendments of this Constitution, it is provided “That no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.”

  The speaker quotes the proviso in quotation marks as part of "the articles respecting amendments".

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  Virginia convention, June 17, 1788, ¶ 2

  And should the government be amended, still this detestable kind of commerce cannot be discontinued till after the expiration of twenty years; for the 5th article, which provides for amendments, expressly excepts this clause.

  The speaker says "the 5th article, which provides for amendments, expressly excepts this clause".

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  Virginia convention, June 25, 1788, ¶ 17

  They can be proposed when the legislatures of two thirds of the states shall make application for that purpose; and the legislatures of three fourths of the states, or conventions in the same, can fix the amendments so proposed.

  The speaker says amendments "can be proposed when the legislatures of two thirds of the states shall make application for that purpose; and the legislatures of three fourths of the states, or conventions in the same, can fix the amendments so proposed".

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  Virginia convention, June 25, 1788, ¶ 77

  …committee, that whatsoever amendments may be deemed necessary, be recommended to the consideration of the Congress which shall first assemble under the said Constitution, to be acted upon according to the mode prescribed in the 5th article thereof.”

  The resolution recommends that amendments be acted upon "according to the mode prescribed in the 5th article thereof", the Constitution's fifth article.

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  Virginia convention, June 27, 1788, ¶ 47

  …commonwealth, enjoin it upon their representatives in Congress to exert all their influence, and use all reasonable and legal methods, to obtain a ratification of the foregoing alterations and provisions, in the manner provided by the 5th article of the said Constitution; and, in all congressional laws to be passed in the mean time, to conform to the spirit of these amendments, as far as the said Constitution will admit.

  The resolution enjoins representatives to obtain a ratification of the amendments "in the manner provided by the 5th article of the said Constitution".

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  Virginia convention, June 5, 1788, ¶ 21

  “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 the Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress.

  The speaker quotes the provision on amendments, in quotation marks, as the "plain, easy way" of getting them.

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  Virginia convention, June 6, 1788, ¶ 50

  On the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, a convention is to be called to propose amendments, which shall be a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof.

  The speaker describes a convention called on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the states, whose amendments are a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states or by conventions in three fourths; the words are not in quotation marks.

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  Edmund Randolph, Letter of October 10, 1787, ¶ 49

  Again may I be aſked, why the mode pointed out in the Conſtitution for its amendment, may not be a ſufficient ſecurity againſt its imperfections, without now arreſting it in its progreſs?—My anſwers are, 1.

  The paragraph refers to "the mode pointed out in the Constitution for its amendment" and to "the uncertain assent of three fourths of the states," which is the amendment procedure of Article V (not named by number).

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  Edmund Randolph, Letter of October 10, 1787, ¶ 52

  The two firſt points are the equality of ſuffrage in the Senate, and the ſubmiſſion of commerce to a mere majority in the legiſlature, with no other check than the reviſion of the Preſident.

  The paragraph names "the equality of suffrage in the Senate" and says it cannot be corrected; Article V is the provision that speaks of a state's "equal Suffrage in the Senate." The paragraph does not say which provision it means, so this link and the one to Article I, Section 3 both rest on the wording.

Debates in Congress

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 31

  Smith did not think the amendment proposed by the honorable gentlemen from Connecticut was compatible with the constitution, which declared, that the amendments recommended by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, should be part of this constitution j in which case it would form one complete system; but according to the idea of the amendment, the instrument is to have five or six suits of improvements.

  The paragraph says "the constitution" declared that amendments "ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States" should be part of it, using Article V's words.

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 33

  …virtue of the present constitution; but it may be doubted whether we have a right to exercise any of its authorities while it is suspended, as it will certainly be from the time that two-thirds of both Houses have agreed to submit it to the State Legislatures; so that, unless we mean to destroy the whole constitution, we ought to be careful how we attempt to amend it in the way proposed bv the committee.

  The paragraph names amendments agreed by "two-thirds of both Houses" and submitted "to the State Legislatures"; only Article V fits.

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 38

  With respect to the observations of the geii^ tieman from South Carolina, I shall just remark, that we have no authority to repeal the whole constitution* The words i*eferred to in that instrument only authorize us to propose amendments to it, wiriich, when properly ratified, are to become valid as a part ofthe same: but these can never be construed to empower us to make a new constitution.

  The paragraph names the words of the Constitution that "authorize us to propose amendments to it" which, ratified, become valid as part of it; only Article V fits.

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 42

  The constitution has undoubtedly provided that the amendments shall be incorporated if 1 understand the import of the words, **and shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part ofthe constitution.” If it had said that the present form should be preserved, then it would be proper to propose the alterations by way of a supplement.

  The paragraph quotes what "The constitution has undoubtedly provided" for amendments: "and shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part ofthe constitution."

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 45

  I will not undertake to define the extent of the word amendment, as it stands in the fifth article; but I suppose it we proposed tu change the division of the powers given to the three branches of the Government, and that proposition is accepted and ratified by…

  The paragraph names Article V by number: "the word amendment, as it stands in the fifth article."

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 61

  All that is granted us bv the 5th article is, that whenever we shall, think it necessary, we may propose amendments to the constitution; not that we may propose to repeal the old, and substitute a new one.

  The paragraph names Article V by number: "All that is granted us bv the 5th article."

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  House, August 13, 1789, ¶ 67

  Now the Congress of the United States are expressly authorized by the sovereign and uncontrollable voice of the people, to propose amendments whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall think fit.

  The paragraph says Congress may "propose amendments whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall think fit"; only Article V fits.

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  House, August 15, 1789, ¶ 95

  …the motion from two considerations: first, that as the committee were not restrained in their discussions, a great deal of time was consumed in unnecessary debate; and, second, that as the constitution required two-thirds of the House to acquiesce in amendments, the decisions of the committee, by a simple majority, might be set aside for the want of the constitututional number to support them in the House.

  The paragraph refers to the requirement in "the constitution" of two-thirds of the House for amendments; only Article V fits.

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  House, August 15, 1789, ¶ 102

  Certainly there is no foundation for this apprehension, or the clause in the constitution requiring the consent of twothirds of the Legislature to amendments is formed on wrong principles.

  The paragraph names "the clause in the constitution requiring the consent of twothirds of the Legislature to amendments"; only Article V fits.

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  House, August 18, 1789, ¶ 5

  It will be found, I fear, still more difficult than I apprehended; for perhaps these amendments, should they be agreed to by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, will be submitted for ratification to the Legislatures of the several States, instead of State conventions, in which case the chance is still worse.

  The speaker names "the way pointed out in the constitution" for obtaining amendments, describing it as agreement by two-thirds of both Houses and adoption by three-fourths of the State Legislatures, which only Article V provides.

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  House, July 21, 1789, ¶ 5

  …but it was such as had met with the approbation of wise and good men in the different States* Some of the proposed amendments were also of high value; but he did not expect they would be supported by two-thirds, of both Houses, without undergoing a thorough investigation.

  The paragraph names the support of "two-thirds, of both Houses" that proposed amendments need; only Article V fits.

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  House, July 21, 1789, ¶ 6

  — The provision for amendments made in the fifth article of the constitution, was intended to facilitate the adoption of those which experience should point out to be necessary.

  The paragraph names Article V by number: "The provision for amendments made in the fifth article of the constitution."

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  House, July 21, 1789, ¶ 20

  Two thirds of both Houses must agree in all these operations, before they can have effect.

  The paragraph says amendments need "Two thirds of both Houses" before they can have effect; only Article V fits.

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  House, July 21, 1789, ¶ 25

  Gerry inquired of his colleague, how it was possible that the House could be a federal convention without the Senate, and when twothirds of both Houses are to agree to the amend - ments?

  The paragraph names the agreement of "twothirds of both Houses" to amendments; only Article V fits.

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 1

  Madison rose, and reminded the House this was the day that he had heretofore named for bringing forward amendments to the constitution, as contemplated in the fifth article of the constitution, addressing the Speaker as follows: This day, Mr.

  The paragraph names Article V by number, speaking of amendments "as contemplated in the fifth article of the constitution."

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 14

  I should begin to turn my attention to the alternative contained in the fifth article, and think of joining the Legislatures of those States which have applied for calling » new convention.

  The paragraph names Article V by number: "the alternative contained in the fifth article," a convention called on the States' application.

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 15

  I will submit it to gentlemen, whether the words of the constitution, ** the Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amend ments,’’ do not bear my construction, that it is as requisite for two-thirds to sanction the expediency of going into the measure at present, asitviM be to -determine the neces-…

  The paragraph quotes "the words of the constitution" from Article V, which it also names as "the fifth article."

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 18

  …and move you, sir, that a select committee be appointed to consider and report such amendments as are proper for Congress to propose to the Legislatures of the several States, conformably to the fifth article of the constitution.

  The motion names Article V by number: amendments to be proposed "conformably to the fifth article of the constitution."

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 21

  …to consider, so far as to incorporate those provisions for the security of rights, against which I believe no serious objection has been made by any class of our constituents: such as would be likely to meet with the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses, and the approbation of three-fourthsof the State Legislatures.

  The paragraph names the two-thirds of both Houses and three-fourths of the State Legislatures that amendments require; only Article V fits.

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 78

  Gentlemen say, that we shall not obtain the consent of two-thirds of both Houses to amendments.

  The paragraph names the consent "of two-thirds of both Houses to amendments"; only Article V fits.

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 84

  …entering on this business, because if they opposed the measure, all the House did would be mere waste of time; and there was some little difficulty on this point, because it required the consent of two-thirds of both Houses to agree to what was proper on this occasion.

  The paragraph names the requirement of "the consent of two-thirds of both Houses" for proposing amendments; only Article V fits.

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 85

  …me to suppose that we shall not be able to propose any alterations that are likely to be adopted by nine States; and gentlemen Know, before the alterations take effect, they must be agreed to by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States in the Union.

  The paragraph names the requirement that alterations be "agreed to by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States"; only Article V fits.

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  House, May 1, 1802, ¶ 2

  He confessed that he trembled at the idea of altering it, though he was attached to that part of it which gave the right of altering it.

  Speaking of the Constitution, the speaker names "that part of it which gave the right of altering it"; only Article V fits.

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 5

  llistbua expressed: the Congress, vheoever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution.” ThequesliosiSjWbatiahere meant by a House t Is it merely a majority o( the- Senators or Representatives; oris it the whole and entire number?

  The paragraph names "the fifth" article of the Constitution and quotes it: "the Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution."

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 15

  The article of the Constitution, on which the gentleman relies, is, that "Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments." When two-thirds aba]l deem it necessary.

  The paragraph quotes "the article of the Constitution, on which the gentleman relies": "Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments."

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 16

  For, y the Constitution, amendments shall be proposed whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary.

  The paragraph says that "by the Constitution, amendments shall be proposed whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary," in the words of Article V.

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 19

  The last is the one under consideration: "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of intended by the Constitution that two-thirds of the Senate, composed of two members from each State, should concur; that is, two-thirds of the whole body.

  The paragraph quotes the opening words of the amendment article under consideration, "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of"; the rest of the quotation is lost in the text.

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 20

  Its language is, that amendments shall be valid " when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States." There is no idea expressed that the concurrence of two-thirds of the Legislatures shall be necessary.

  The paragraph quotes the language of "the article in the Constitution" on amendments: valid "when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States."

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 37

  And in the clause respecting amendments, it says, "the Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem i( necessary, shall propose amendments to the Constitution," &c.

  The paragraph quotes "the clause respecting amendments": "the Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the Constitution."

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  House, December 6, 1803, ¶ 46

  The fifth article requires the concurrence of two-thirds of each House.

  The speaker names "the fifth article," which "requires the concurrence of two-thirds of each House."

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  House, December 7, 1803, ¶ 68

  …was used; "when ratified by three-fourths of the Legislatures of the several States." It appeared to him that this expression required the ratification by three-fourths of each Legislature, and not, as expressed in the Constitution, of the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States.

  The speaker contrasts the resolution's wording with ratification "as expressed in the Constitution, of the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States," the words of Article V.

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 2

  Conscious of their own fallibility as men, they did not, as some have since done, proclaim the Constitution to be perfect They foresaw that experience might discover imperfections, and, therefore, they inserted the fifth article, declaring that " the Congress, whenever , ' two-thirds of both Houses shall &eia it itecem- * r^, shall propose amendments to ibix Cooslitu- ' ‘tion; ; or, on the application of the Legislatures ' of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a ' contention for proposing BtDeodmeDls, which, in ' either case, shall be valid to all intents and pur- ' poses as part of this Constitution," &c.

  The paragraph quotes "the fifth article," which declares that "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 ..." (garbled in places by OCR).

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 26

  The gentleman from Virginia said that the difficulty of obtaining amendments to the Constitution had been made an objection to it, but this resolution departs from the language of the Constitution, and instead of the ratification of the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, requires that Of threefourths of the Legislatures of the several States to its adoption.

  The speaker contrasts the resolution with "the language of the Constitution," ratification "of the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States," the words of Article V.

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 31

  The Coniiitution has here erected one of its most powerful barriers against innovating upon its principles. It must not only be agreedto by us, but two-thirds of both branches of Congress must concur in proposing amendments.

  The speaker says the Constitution requires that "two-thirds of both branches of Congress must concur in proposing amendments," the rule of Article V.

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 49

  That the Senate and House of Represent a tivea have a jointly Const ituiional right to originate amendments, is a point not to be contested.

  The speaker names the "Constitutional right" of the Senate and House "to originate amendments"; only Article V fits.

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 65

  It follows, that although we may modify the forms of the Constitution, in such a manner as will operate equally upon all the States, we cannot, under the article providing for amendments, ingraft new principles into the Constitution which will destroy the rights ofindividual Stales, without the consent of those States.

  The speaker names "the article providing for amendments" and the concurrence of two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the State Legislatures; only Article V fits.

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 72

  The Constitution has, in this instance, made each House of Congress and the Stale Legislatures a check upon each Other; else, why are two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and the Legislatures ol three-fourths of the several States, required by the Constitution to concur in an amendment?

  The speaker names the requirement "by the Constitution" that two-thirds of both Houses and the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States concur in an amendment, the rule of Article V.

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  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 80

  …said in the resolution about ils being ratified by three-fourths, all, or any of the State Legislatures, I believe it sufficient that the bare {roposiiion go out from Congress, and when it as received the ratification of the Legislatures of three-fourths of the Stales, the Constitution itself, which is paramount to anything we can say on the subject, declares it to be a part of that instrument.

  The speaker says that when a proposal has "received the ratification of the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, the Constitution itself ... declares it to be a part of that instrument"; only Article V fits.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 118

  …of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing amendment!, which, in either case, ihall 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 ma; be proposed by Congress :"

  The paragraph names "an express article, to wit: the fifth, authorizing amendments" and quotes it in full.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 126

  " The Congress, when two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to Ail 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 ease, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the aaveial States, oi…

  The paragraph quotes in full what "the fifth article in the Constitution says," as introduced in the preceding paragraph.

• cited bySuggested
  House, December 8, 1803, ¶ 150

  …influential; and that this Con- ■liluiion was finally adopted, because it carried with it (he means of being altered and amended as time and experience should suggest, and because (be Slate Legislatures as well as Congress had a right to institute amendments t

  The speaker says the Constitution "carried with it the means of being altered and amended" by the State Legislatures as well as Congress; only Article V fits.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, October 28, 1803, ¶ 20

  …Constitution, by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, when ratified by (he Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, yet a single exception is made, and it is particularly specified, that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage la the Senate.

  The paragraph names the rule for amendments after 1808 by two-thirds of both Houses and three-fourths of the State Legislatures and quotes the exception "particularly specified, that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate," the words of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, October 28, 1803, ¶ 38

  An amendment of the Constitution must be sanctioned not only by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, but must be ratified by three-fourths of the State Legislatures.

  The speaker names "this provision of the Constitution" by which an amendment must be sanctioned by two-thirds of both Houses and ratified by three-fourths of the State Legislatures; only Article V fits.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 5

  …by the Convention which formed it, that the powers remaining in and not granted by the States respectively might at any time be delegated or transferred to the General Government, under the section au-. thorizmg amendments.

  The paragraph names "the section authorizing amendments", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 20

  …was one of the subjects peculiarly guarded and guarantied to the States, and an amendment ratified by any number of States less than the whole, though within the letter of the article which provides for amendments, would be contrary to the spirit of the instrument, and so in reality an act of gross bad faith.

  The paragraph names "the article which provides for amendments", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 36

  Before speaking to the resolution embracing the proposition to amend, I refer to the fifth article of the Constitution of theUnited States, which makes ample provision and explains the way by which an amendment may be made.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution", which the next paragraph quotes.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 37

  "Article V —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, m either case, shall he valid to…

  The paragraph quotes Article V in full, under the heading "Article V".

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 44

  There is nowhere contemplated in the Constitution of the United States any action by Congress that more completely acknowledges and recognizes State sovereignty than this very provision of the Constitution explaining how itmay be amended.

  The paragraph names "this very provision of the Constitution explaining how it may be amended", which requires ratification by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States; that is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 46

  I regard the fifth article as a part of the Constitution just as full of vitality as it was the day our fathers established it as a part of the Constitution of this country, and, sir, the gentleman from New York,…

  The paragraph names "the fifth article" of the Constitution.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 47

  …instrument; and they are referred to this fifth article, where the limitation is to be found; it provides" that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect the first ami fourth clauses in the ninth section of the firstarticle." But, sir, this Constitution is entirely silent with reference to all other portions, including even that which provides that fugitives from labor shall be returned to service.

  The paragraph quotes the limitation in "this fifth article": "that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article" ("ami" is an OCR misreading).

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1864 (2), ¶ 72

  …settled the distracting question for themselves by mutual concession on the part of conflicting interests and views, and then provided for the permanency of that settlement by the adoption of a clause in the Constitution providing that amendments to it should be made only with the assent of three fourths of the parties to the compact.

  The paragraph names "a clause in the Constitution providing that amendments to it should be made only with the assent of three fourths", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 15, 1864, ¶ 82

  The people have, in making the Constitution, reserved to themselves aright of amendment unlimited, except m the particulars in which they have chosen, in the fifth article, to restrain themselves from amendment, and those are so clearly defined that it is impossible to fall into any mistake in regard to them.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article" and the particulars in which it restrains amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 15, 1864, ¶ 141

  It is simply to execute the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States, which provides:

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution", which the next paragraph quotes.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, June 15, 1864, ¶ 142

  Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it neces aiy shall propose amendments to this Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution when rati tied l by three Joiothsof the…

  The paragraph quotes Article V, in a shortened form.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 15, 1864, ¶ 225

  Article five of the Constitution provides for its own amendment as follows:

  The paragraph names "Article five of the Constitution", which the next paragraph quotes.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, June 15, 1864, ¶ 226

  …thereof, as the one or (lie other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to tile year 180b sliail in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section oflije first article; and that no State, without Its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in tile Senate."

  The paragraph quotes Article V, headed "Art. 5" (much of it misread by OCR).

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 15, 1864, ¶ 367

  The only provision of the Constitution requiring a two thirds vote is upon the passage of the resolution.

  The Speaker names "the only provision of the Constitution requiring a two thirds vote" on the joint resolution, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 31, 1864 (2), ¶ 25

  Once more I quote from the Constitution, article five:

  The paragraph names "article five" of the Constitution, which the next paragraph quotes.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 31, 1864 (2), ¶ 26

  …of two thiid s of the several States, shall call a convention for preparing amendment-*, which m either case shall he valid to all intents and purposes as part o( this Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as one or the oilier mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress."

  The paragraph quotes Article V, from "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses" to "mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress".

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 31, 1864 (2), ¶ 27

  Second, what States may participate in such amendment as provided by article five just quoted?

  The paragraph names "article five just quoted".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 65

  I refer to the fifth article, which gives the power to amend, and prescribes the mode in which the amendments shall be accomplished.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article" of the Constitution, which the next paragraphs quote.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 66

  Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth tectum of ilio.

  The paragraph quotes the first proviso of Article V (the article has "One thousand eight hundred and eight" for "1808").

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 68

  "and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."

  The paragraph quotes the closing proviso of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 153

  …as a guide and a landmark heretofore, and I trust it will long remain there as a landmark in the future; and it is Siot at all in conflict with that provision of the Constitution which authorizes amendments to be made to this Constitution.

  The paragraph names "that provision of the Constitution which authorizes amendments to be made to this Constitution", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 155

  There is another provision which allows Congress to propose amendments to the Constitution.

  The paragraph names the provision "which allows Congress to propose amendments to the Constitution" and its last provision on equal representation in the Senate, which is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 158

  …the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, and that these amendments, when adopted by three fourths of the States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution.

  The paragraph gives in part the words of "the article of the Constitution which gives Congress power to propose amendments", including "shall call a convention for proposing amendments" and "shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution".

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 160

  But it is a plain proposition that Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments to the Constitution.

  The paragraph gives the words of Article V: "Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments" (the article has "shall propose").

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 10, 1865, ¶ 227

  …fourths of the States, they shall become valid and binding provisions ofthe Constitution; and upon this power of amendment there is one and only one limitation, and that is that" no State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." The lull and complete power to amend the Constitution in any and every particular is given and confirmed by the fifth article of the Constitution, curtailed by the single…

  The paragraph quotes the one limitation on the power of amendment, "no State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate", and names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865, ¶ 3

  …no cognizance of the subject matter under consideration so as to affect the status of individuals; that it is solely and exclusively within the power of the States; and that the fifth article of the Constitution providing for amendments does not confer upon the Congress of the United States any jurisdiction or any power beyond the grants and delegations of power plainly and distinctly written down m the Constitution.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution providing for amendments".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865, ¶ 4

  Did the States, when they ratified the Constitution of the United States, intend by the fifth article of that Constitution to confer upon two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the States unlimited power?

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of that Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865, ¶ 30

  But it is claimed that the fifth article of the Constitution delegates this power, and gives the power to amend overevery subject, and that it is limited only by the discretion of Congress and of the people.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 61

  Thayer] something like this; whether he maintained that there existed power in the people of the United States under the provision of the Constitution allowing them to alter their organic law, to so alter it as to establish slavery in any State where it does not now exist.

  The paragraph names "the provision of the Constitution allowing them to alter their organic law", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 63

  By the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States power is given to three fourths of the States to change the terms of the compact at will except in the single item of representation in the Senate,) against the…

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 67

  And that fifth article of the Constitution is as much a part of the Constitution as any other part of it.

  The paragraph names "that fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 80

  There are but three points in which that Constitution, by its letter, could not be changed.

  The paragraph names the three points in which the Constitution "by its letter, could not be changed": importation before 1808, the rule of taxation, and equal representation in the Senate, which are the limits set in Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 120

  I do not agree that under the article of the Constitution authorizing amendments we have the right to amend the Constitution so as to establish slavery, or to invite the King of Dahomey to rule over this country.

  The paragraph names "the article of the Constitution authorizing amendments", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 122

  One provision of the Constitution is that in a certain way it may be amended.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution "that in a certain way it may be amended", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 11, 1865 (2), ¶ 187

  …that at the time those resolutions were pending this question ol power was discussed, and for one, I held then as 1 hold to day that we had the power under this amendatory clause to reach slavery pro or con, and the only question is whether we shall use that power as then for the benefit of the country or abuse it as now…

  The paragraph names "this amendatory clause" of the Constitution, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 36

  By the Constitution, in its fifth article, which provides that a national convention shall be called for proposing amendments to the Constitution.

  The paragraph names the Constitution's "fifth article" and its provision for a convention for proposing amendments.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 39

  …fourths shall ratify, either by convention or Legislature, the proposition is" a part of this Constitution." It is the States that do this in the first instance, all according«in making the amending clause; again by their convention in proposing; and again by ratifying.

  The paragraph names "the amending clause" by which two thirds propose and three fourths ratify amendments, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 40

  Even by this amendatory clause they pluck from their u round of sovereignty" each a crown jewel to form and decorate the Federal diadem.

  The paragraph names "this amendatory clause", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 42

  Calhoun holds, by the amendatory clause?

  The paragraph names "the amendatory clause", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 46

  …he always held to the idea that the only mode by which a dissolution of the Union or a secession of the States could ever be legally accomplished was by this organic and all powerful clause of amendment.

  The paragraph names "this organic and all powerful clause of amendment", which is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 50

  The article was then fin ther amended by the existing clause, that" no State shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." (Elliot, volume 5, page 352.) Thus it passed.

  The paragraph tells how the article on amendment came into the Constitution, and quotes "the existing clause" "that no State shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate", words of the closing proviso of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 51

  That intention was to limit the amending clause only in two particulars.

  The paragraph names "the amending clause", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 53

  Finding this clause of amendment in the Constitution, with no doubt upon its features, I must bow to its supremacy.

  The paragraph names "this clause of amendment in the Constitution", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 59

  These reasons for the clause of amendment are the reasons why the power is so extensive.

  The paragraph names "the clause of amendment" and its two specified particulars, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 62

  it is in the light of these democratic truths that I read the fifth article of the Constitution.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 75

  I have always claimed the right to pass upon the slavery question by an amendment in pursuance of the fifth article of the Constitution.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 77

  Buchanan, referring to the amendment clause, proposed to extend as operation to protect this right in the Territories until admitted as States, and a like recognition of the right of the master to his escaped…

  The paragraph names "the amendment clause", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 79

  …very substance and body of it, it recognized, without dissent from a single voice, the power to amend by abolishing slavery in States, and it sought to checkmate that power by adding it to the exceptions of the fifth article.

  The paragraph names "the exceptions of the fifth article".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 82

  I find it there, asserting these powers under the amendment clause—which he now denies—while you, Mr.

  The paragraph names "the amendment clause", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865, ¶ 83

  But many plans were proposed, and all under the amendment clause.

  The paragraph names "the amendment clause", which is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865 (2), ¶ 11

  In case it should be found by experience that too many powers or dangerous prerogatives were reserved to the States, then Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses should deem it necessary, should propose amendments to the Constitution.

  The paragraph gives one of the "two modes" of amendment in the words of Article V turned into indirect speech ("should" for "shall").

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865 (2), ¶ 12

  And on the other hand, whenever experience might show that too great or dangerous powers had been granted to the General Government, then, on the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, Congress should call a convention for proposing amendments.

  The paragraph gives the second mode of amendment in the words of Article V: "on the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, Congress should call a convention for proposing amendments".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865 (2), ¶ 40

  The words of the fifth article of the Constitution on this subject are very express and clear.

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 12, 1865 (2), ¶ 53

  The gentleman says that although there is plainly written in the Constitution the power to propose amendments, and although the authors of the Constitution enumerated three instances which they excepted from the exercise of that power, yet there is something still more excepted which is not embraced within the three items excepted; and he says that it is unconstitutional to propose to amend the Constitution…

  The paragraph names "the power to propose amendments" written in the Constitution and the three instances excepted from it, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865, ¶ 19

  The provision of the Constitution which confers the power of amendment, and which I do not propose to read, has but two limitations, as has been repeatedly remarked in this discussion.

  The paragraph names "the provision of the Constitution which confers the power of amendment" and its two limitations, which is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865, ¶ 22

  …read it; but in reference to the question of limitation, I think that the best way to obtain light on the subject is to read what the Constitution itself says: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to tin* Constitution, oj, on the application ol the LcjriS laiines of two thirds of the several States, shall call a convention Joi piopo ing amendment*, winch, m either case, shall…

  The paragraph quotes "what the Constitution itself says": Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865, ¶ 24

  …I cannotfor my life see, as my friend from Ohio sees, where there are any other limitations of the power of Congress, according to the letter of the instrument, than those whichVe find in the clause of the Constitution itself.

  The paragraph names "the clause of the Constitution" on amendment and "this article of the Constitution", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865, ¶ 28

  Therefore I infinitely prefer the gentleman s first proposition—that the power of amendment is not limited except by the terms of the clause of the Constitution on that subject.

  The paragraph names "the clause of the Constitution" on amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865, ¶ 36

  Speaker, I have another remark to make in regard to the limitation in the fifth article of the Constitution.

  The paragraph names "the limitation in the fifth article of the Constitution".

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865, ¶ 115

  …no amendment which may he made prior to the year 1808 shall m any manner afiWu the thst ami fourth clauses in the ninth section ot the fli t article; and that no State, without its consent, shall b<* deprived of its equal feuiliage in the Senate —Article V.

  The paragraph quotes the limitations of Article V, labelled "Article V" (much of it misread by OCR).

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865 (2), ¶ 18

  Will the Clerk read the clause of the Constitution?

  The speaker asks the Clerk to read "the clause of the Constitution" on amendment, which the Clerk then reads; it is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 13, 1865 (2), ¶ 21

  No lawyer who wishes to understand it can deny that, with the exceptions contained in that proviso, the power to amend the Constitution is unlimited.

  The paragraph names the exceptions "contained in that proviso" of the clause just read, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 34

  The Constitution provides that a two thuds vote of both branches of Congress shall be required to pass a proposition for amendment; and it is further provided that it must be ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States before it shall become a part of the Constitution of…

  The paragraph says the Constitution provides for amendment by a two thirds vote of both branches of Congress and ratification by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 35

  It subscribes to every article in that instrument, and among others H subscribes to the one which provides for an amendment to the Constitution.

  The paragraph names the article of the Constitution "which provides for an amendment to the Constitution", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 39

  These amendments have not attempted to amend that portion of the Constitution which instructs us how amendments shall be made, but simply express and declare the reservation of those rights to the States or peoples of the States not enumerated in the powers granted; and, sir, whatever a two…

  The paragraph names "that portion of the Constitution which instructs us how amendments shall be made", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 134

  Whatever power" the Congress" may have in this behalf is derived from article five, section one, of the Constitution, which provides—

  The paragraph names "article five ... of the Constitution" (which has no sections), quoted in the next paragraph.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 137

  There are but three restrictions upon the action of Congress in the letter of this instrument, one pf which relates to the migration of persons prior to the year 1808, and the others to taxation and equal suffrage in the Senate.

  The paragraph names the three restrictions on amendment in the Constitution, on migration before 1808, taxation, and equal suffrage in the Senate, which are in Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 140

  The framers of the Constitution, as I claim, clothed" the Congress" with power to propose and three fourths of the several States with power to ratify amendments thereto.

  The paragraph says the framers clothed "the Congress" with power to propose, and three fourths of the States with power to ratify, amendments, and speaks of "the language of this instrument"; that is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 164

  Indeed, the clause authorizing amendments to the Constitution expressly limits" the Congress" to amendments which it shall deem necessary.

  The paragraph names "the clause authorizing amendments to the Constitution" and its words on amendments Congress "shall deem necessary", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 203

  Is the provision for amendment at all doubtful in its import?

  The paragraph names "the provision for amendment", which the next paragraph quotes; it is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1865, ¶ 204

  …aineudwnt nineh may ho Hindi"- prior to tin; year IHOR diatl in any nirinnei affect the ftr t and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the lir t article; and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of ltd equal suffrage m the Senate."

  The paragraph quotes Article V, named in the paragraph before as "the provision" for amendment (much of it misread by OCR).

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 31, 1865, ¶ 12

  I turn to the Constitution, and find article fifth provides— u The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses &hal!

  The paragraph quotes what "article fifth provides".

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 31, 1865, ¶ 59

  It is altogether immaterial, for the purposes of this discussion, whether the power of three fourths of the States to alter the organic law is altogether unlimited, except by the reservation in the amending clause of the Constitution.

  The paragraph names "the amending clause of the Constitution", which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 31, 1865, ¶ 151

  The Constitution of the United States, however, declares that no constitutional amendment shall pass except by a two thirds vote.

  The Speaker says "the Constitution of the United States ... declares that no constitutional amendment shall pass except by a two thirds vote", naming Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 6, 1865, ¶ 17

  The fifth article of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution", which the next paragraph quotes.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 6, 1865, ¶ 18

  …it no amendment which may tie made prior to the year 18J8 shall in any manner affeet the first and tomtli cLiu es m the ninth section of" the article; and that no State, without its? consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."

  The paragraph quotes Article V; its closing words are given here ("its?" has a stray mark in the scan).

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 6, 1865, ¶ 29

  The framers ofithe Constitution providedfoi its amendment in the section which i have already quoted.

  The paragraph names the section providing for amendment of the Constitution, quoted earlier in the speech, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 6, 1865, ¶ 30

  …the Constitution desired die protection and continuance of slavery they could easily have provided against an amendment of the character of the one now before us by guarding this interest as they did the right of the States to an equal representation in the Senate.

  The paragraph says the framers guarded "the right of the States to an equal representation in the Senate" against amendment, naming the closing proviso of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 6, 1865, ¶ 73

  …and after considerable discussion was defeated by a vote of 95 in the affirmative and 66 in the negative, (twentyone members notvotmg,) being twelve votes less than necessary to make the two thirds vote required by the Constitution.

  The paragraph names "the two thirds vote required by the Constitution" for the joint resolution, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 7, 1865, ¶ 4

  The plain terms of the obligation preclude any attempt to change or destroy any of its provisions or guarantees, except by the lawful mode which itself provides, and which is laid down in its fifth article in the following words:

  The paragraph names the Constitution's "fifth article", which the next paragraph quotes.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 7, 1865, ¶ 5

  …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 1808 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."

  The paragraph quotes Article V, named in the paragraph before.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 7, 1865, ¶ 64

  They not only declared that slavery existed, but that the importation of slaves should not be interfered with until a time named in the Constitution, and they puta provision in the Constitution that no amendment should be made to it which should interfere in any manner with the right to import slaves from foreign countries until the year 180S and out uf which trade Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and other States made money until that year.

  The paragraph names "a provision in the Constitution that no amendment should be made to it which should interfere ... with the right to import slaves" until 1808, which is the proviso of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 7, 1865, ¶ 79

  That Constitution provided the mode of its amendment, and the power of amendment was restricted in two points alone." The one was in reference to the importation of persons'* or slaves, before the year 1808; and the other was in restriction of the power of the people to…

  The paragraph names the Constitution's provision for "the mode of its amendment" and its two restrictions, on importation before 1808 and on the representation of a State in the Senate, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 9, 1865, ¶ 98

  If the proposed amendment to the Constitution as it passed the Senate shall receive the vote of two thirds of the members of this body, as required by the fifth article of the Constitution, and shall then be ratified by the people, its immediate effect will be to liberate from bondage three million seven hundred and forty eight thousand three hundred and ninety…

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution".

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  House, January 9, 1865, ¶ 110

  I am aware that able men upon this floor have objected to this action, they claiming that the provisions of the fifth article of the Constitution does not admit of this construction.

  The paragraph names "the provisions of the fifth article of the Constitution".

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  House, January 9, 1865 (2), ¶ 61

  It is true that the provision of the Constitution which authorizes its amendment is very broad and contains but one express limitation.

  The paragraph names "the provision of the Constitution which authorizes its amendment", which is Article V.

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  House, June 13, 1866 (2), ¶ 112

  The SPEAKER The question before the House is on concurring in the amendments of "the Senate; and as it requires by the Constitution a two thirds vote, the vote will be taken by yeas and nays.

  The Speaker says that concurring in the amendments to the proposed constitutional amendment "requires by the Constitution a two thirds vote", the rule of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 10, 1866 (2), ¶ 112

  But it only says that the passage of an amendment to the Constitution shall be by a twothirds vote of each House of Congress, but does not say that the vote shall bo by yeas and nays.

  The Speaker says the Constitution provides that "the passage of an amendment to the Constitution shall be by a twothirds vote of each House", the rule of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 8, 1866 (2), ¶ 64

  So that eleven States are denied all representation in both branches of Congress, although the Constitution provides "thatlib State, tvitlbut its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate;" and the right to representation in the House is equally clear.

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks as what "the Constitution provides", the last proviso of Article V. The opening words of the quotation are garbled by OCR.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 8, 1866 (2), ¶ 70

  …but you shall never be represented in Congress unless you agree to the conditions which we shall see proper to impose on you although the Constitution expressly declares that "no State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate," and that each State shall have at least one Representative in the House.

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks as what "the Constitution expressly declares", the last proviso of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 8, 1866 (2), ¶ 75

  …made by the framers of the Constitution was the recognition of the equality of each State in the Senate; and to fix this equality they provided in the Constitution that no State, without its consent," should be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

  The paragraph quotes the last proviso of Article V as what the framers "provided in the Constitution", changing only "shall" to "should".

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  House, May 9, 1866 (4), ¶ 18

  Stevens,] have reported to this House a proposition for certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which, if approved by two thirds of both Houses and then ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, will become a part thereof.

  The paragraph names Article V's procedure, approval by "two thirds of both Houses" and ratification "by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States," in the clause's own words.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 9, 1866 (4), ¶ 28

  …constitutions of those States of much practical importance, for the same power that makes the amendments may unmake; but to annul on amendment to the Constitution of the United States requires the consent of two thirds of both Houses of Congress and a ratification by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by a convention in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Congress; and if this amendment is adopted it is not likely it will ever be altered so as to endanger the loyal States mean by the loyal States those States…

  The paragraph reproduces Article V's words on ratification, "by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by a convention in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Congress."

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 15, 1869, ¶ 91

  I submit that the House has now, by a vote of non concurrence made an end to that amendment, because the language of ths Constitution is mandatory that amendments shall be submitted to the States only when two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary.

  The paragraph gives "the language of the Constitution" that amendments are proposed when "two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary", the words of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 5

  Only 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."

  The paragraph quotes, in answer to "How can it be amended? The Constitution says:", the words of Article V on ratification by the Legislatures or conventions of three fourths of the States.

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  House, January 29, 1869, ¶ 51

  …name and in bohalf of tbe people of this Commonwealth, enjoin it upon the r representatives in Congress at all times, until tho alterations and provisions aforesaid have been considered agroeably to tbq fifth article of tho said Constitution, to exert all their influence and use all reasonable and legal methods to obtain a ratification of thesaid alterations and provisions m such manner as is provided in the…

  The paragraph quotes a resolution of the Massachusetts ratifying convention, which cites "the fifth article of the said Constitution" on the making of amendments (with OCR errors).

• cited bySuggested
  House, January 30, 1869, ¶ 107

  On all other questions requiring a two thirds vote, such as proposed amendments to the Constitution and relief from political disabilities, the Constitution does not command the vote to be taken by yeas and nays any more than on bills which only require a majority vote.

  The Speaker names proposed amendments to the Constitution among the questions "requiring a two thirds vote"; only Article V fits.

• cited bySuggested
  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 325

  Under Article V of the Constitution two-thirds of both Houses of Congress may propose amendments, or the legislatures of two-thirds of the States may apply · to have a convention of all the States called for the proposing of amendments, in which case Congress must make the call; when proposed by either form, the amendment may be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States, or by conventions in the same, as Congress may direct when the amendments are proposed.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and sets out its modes of proposing and ratifying amendments.

• cited bySuggested
  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 331

  While the sole function of Congress with respect to amendments is to propose to the States such amendments as two-thirds of both Houses see fit, 'to be ratified or rejected, either by state legislatures or conventions, yet Congress in this instance did not permit all the States to so act upon this proposed amendment.

  The speaker describes the part of Congress in amendment as proposing "such amendments as two-thirds of both Houses see fit" for ratification "by state legislatures or conventions", the provision of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 449

  · Amendment to the Constitution may be secured in two ways. Congress by two-thirds -vote may propose them to the States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the States by action of their respective legislatures or conventions in such States, as Congress may require in the proposal, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution. Or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the States a federal constitutional convention for the purpose of amendments may be called by Congress.

  The speaker sets out the two ways the Constitution may be amended, in words close to Article V ("shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution").

• cited bySuggested
  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 608

  Congress can provide for a constitutional convention at the request of two-thirds of the States, and such a convention could consider the whole subject of constitutional amendments.

  The speaker says "Congress can provide for a constitutional convention at the request of two-thirds of the States", the provision of Article V for a convention.

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  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 972

  I desire to inquire of the Chair Burleso n whether, under Article V of the . Constitution, the Chair - holds that the affirmative action of two-thirds of the membership o f Byrd this House iS necessary to pass this resolution?

  The speaker asks how the Chair reads "Article V of the Constitution" on the two-thirds vote needed to pass the resolution.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 977

  "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," : and made the point of order that the vote required was two-thirds <Jf the entire membershipnot two-thirds of a quorum .

  The precedent read to the House quotes the opening of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, July 12, 1909, ¶ 978

  The provision of the Constitution Currier says ' two-thirds of both Houses.' What constitutes a House?

  The Speaker's ruling, read as a precedent, quotes "The provision of the Constitution" on proposing amendments as saying "two-thirds of both Houses", words of Article V (a name from the vote list, "Currier", is run into the line by OCR).

• cited bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 229

  I am free to confess that in my llnmb1e judgment no instrument in the history of the world compares with the Constitution of the United States, but Article V of the Constitution gives Congress the power of amendment, and this right has been exercised time and again as the exigencies demnnded.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" as giving Congress the power of amendment.

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  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 261

  …not the balance of power us between large and small Stutes, maintainin · g the equality of suffrage in the Senate, nor does it tend to any such disturbance, for Article V of the Constitution puts it beyond the reach of any amendment to reduce this equal suffrage for any State, large or small, without the con.sent of the State .

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and its rule that no amendment may reduce a State's equal suffrage in the Senate without its consent.

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  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 591

  It was therefore not only put in the Constitution at the instance of the small States-the provision that no State should be deprived of its equal suffrage in th e Senate without its own consent-but it was nowhere permitted in the Constitution that Congress could regulate the election of State officers; and since the power to elect Senators !s placed in the various State…

  The speaker names the provision of the Constitution "that no State should be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate without its own consent", the closing proviso of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 907

  I a · ask him if he does not think this answers No State , without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate .

  The speaker quotes the closing proviso of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 910

  That provision itself must first lJe nmencled before you can deprive a State of its equal rights in the Senate; but when that provision has been amended.

  The speaker names the provision of the Constitution (quoted in his exchange at paragraph 907) that guards a State's equal rights in the Senate, the closing proviso of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 917

  theory of the amendment-that the legislatures of the different States can not be ti·ustecL The Constitution provides that an amendment may l>e ratifie<l by the legislatures or by conventions called in the States.

  The speaker says "The Constitution provides that an amendment may be ratified by the legislatures or by conventions", the provision of Article V on ratification.

• cited bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 990

  I said that the large States could not force upon a smaller State a constitutional amendment to deprive it of its equal suffrage in the Senate except with the consent of the smaller State.

  The speaker restates the rule that no amendment may deprive a State of its equal suffrage in the Senate without its consent, and reads Article V in the next paragraphs.

• cited bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 991

  Here is Article V of the Constitution :

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" before reading it.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, April 13, 1911, ¶ 992

  The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this ‘ - nstltution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of 1 l1 e 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, us 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 1808 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.

  The paragraph reads Article V in full.

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  House, May 13, 1912 (3), ¶ 474

  …behalf of the people of this Commonwealth, enjoin it upon their Representatives in Congress at all times, until the alterations and provisions aforesaid have been e o~g considered agreeably to the fifth article of said Constitution, to exert all their influence and use all reasonable and legal methods to obtain a ratification of said alterations and provisions, in such manner as is bill provided in…

  The ratification resolution of Massachusetts, read by the speaker, names "the fifth article of said Constitution" on amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 13, 1912 (3), ¶ 569

  Article V of the Constitution requires that two-thirds of both Houses, when they deem it necessary, may propose amendments to the Federal Constitution.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and its requirement of "two-thirds of both Houses" to propose amendments.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 13, 1912 (3), ¶ 577

  Article V of the Constitution is perfectly distinct. It says: The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it nece sary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and quotes its opening.

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 13, 1912 (3), ¶ 579

  ve 394 · Members that constitute this House, then the entire membership of the House, under Article V, if it means anything, is required.

  The speaker names "Article V" and what it requires of the House.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 13, 1912 (3), ¶ 587

  …the Supreme Court, in arguing the question, argues at length, and but for the language provided in case of a bill it is perfectly clear the court would have held this language-" two-thirds of both Houses "-meant the entire membership of the House .

  The speaker quotes "two-thirds of both Houses", the words of Article V whose meaning is in question.

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 13, 1912 (3), ¶ 598

  But in this particular clause of the Constitution there is no such limitation, and article 5 was placed there for the purpose of guarding the instrument as it was passed.

  The speaker names "article 5" of the Constitution.

• cited bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 182

  Constitution wisely provided in A _ Article V :

  The speaker names "Article V" of the Constitution and quotes it in the next paragraph.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 183

  That Congress, when e ver two-thirds of both IIous e s hall de e m it nece sary, shall propose amendm e nts to this Constitution , * • • which • • * shall be valid to all intent and purpos e s as p:ll't of this Constitution, when ratifi e d by the legislatures of thr e e-fourths of the several States.

  The paragraph quotes Article V, with omissions marked (OCR spacing breaks).

• quoted bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 353

  This provision is found in Article V of the Constitution. It contains only three limitations upon amendments. These are found in a proviso and are as follows Pro -d ded, That no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect the third and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its suffrage in the Senate.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and quotes its proviso (giving "third" for "first" among the clauses of the ninth section, and omitting "equal").

• quoted bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 354

  To-day the only restriction, limitation, or reservation imposed upon the people in amending the Constitution is " that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." With this limitation the whole matter is l-eft to the people.

  The speaker quotes the remaining limitation in Article V.

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  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 485

  The Constitution rrrs nothing abol1t " st'lbmitting" an amendment to t'he 'States; it ·ay · that "the O<>ngre , svhenever two-thirds '()f · both Hou · es lmH <leem it nece . c;nry . ha1l pro1~ose · nmendmcnts to fbi~ Constitution," .unll that the:-:e shaH be<..'Orue valid ' ' w·hen rntifiell by three-fomths {)f the tates." ' The function of ongre s m tllis matter i not p'ul·ely mini teria1, bnt is an es enfial element in the · proce.: of amendment.

  The speaker quotes what the Constitution "says": that Congress, "whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution", valid "when ratified by three-fourths of the States" (Article V; the passage is badly garbled by OCR).

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  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 539

  Article Y of the Constitution WJ that a constitutional amendment submitted as "·e propose to submit this shall be operative when acted upon favorably by threefourth of the legislatures of the States, .

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" (OCR "Y") and its rule that an amendment is operative when three-fourths of the legislatures act on it favorably.

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  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 542

  This article which permits Congress to submit amendments pro­ , ,ides ns follows :

  The speaker names "the language of the Constitution", "This article which permits Congress to submit amendments", which is Article V, and reads it in the next paragraph.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 543

  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 1 in either case, shall be . va1id 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 t·atlficution may be proposed by the Congress. ·

  The paragraph quotes Article V, up to its proviso.

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  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 564

  Speaker, it seems to me very clear that in th~ submission of the constitutional amendment Congr-ess is given the uaked pow.er of submitting p.roposed amendments, · and Article V itself takes care completely and effectually of everything beyond that.

  The speaker names "Article V" and its provision that an amendment becomes part of the Constitution when ratified by the States.

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  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 735

  In order to amend the Constitution it is nece 'iary to pas& through both the Senate and the House the proposed amendment in identically the.

  The speaker sets out what is necessary "In order to amend the Constitution": passage by two-thirds of both Houses and adoption by three-fourths of the state legislatures, the rules of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 793

  The framers of the Constitution provided a wise method for its amendment. No amendment can be submitted to the States except by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate; and after it is submitted, so careful were they to guard…

  The speaker names the method the framers of the Constitution provided for its amendment, a two-thirds vote in both Houses and ratification by three-fourths of the States, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 868

  Hence, when it Is voted upon by the States and adopted it is as much a valid article and amendment to the Constitution as was the fifth article of that instrument, which itself contained a limitation as to any amend· .

  The speaker names "the fifth article" of the Constitution as itself containing a limitation on amendments.

• cited bySuggested
  House, December 17, 1917, ¶ 898

  The States made the Constitution reserving to themselves the right to amend it, and that is whe~1 two-thirds of both Houses of Congress deem it necessary that an amendment should be submitted.

  The speaker names the right to amend the Constitution reserved in it, "when two-thirds of both Houses of Congress deem it necessary", in words close to Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, May 21, 1919, ¶ 68

  One of the fundamental privileges under the Constitution is to amend it. If three-fourths of the States wish it, there is no authority under the Constitution that endows any State with the privileg-e of denying it. They suggest~ they wanted a referendum vote. The Constitution prescribes, orders, another method. When the women come here and ask for the ballot, they simply Invoke the methods by which the Constitution has always been amended.

  The speaker names the privilege "under the Constitution" to amend it, if three-fourths of the States wish it, by the method "The Constitution prescribes", which is Article V.

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  House, May 21, 1919, ¶ 170

  Speaker, of course there is no dispute upon the proposition that Congress by a two-thirds vote of both House<:; may submit any amendment which it sees fit, and when such amendment is ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the several States it would become a part of the Constitution and binding upon all the States.

  The speaker restates the rule that Congress by a two-thirds vote of both Houses may submit an amendment that becomes part of the Constitution when ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures, the provision of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 21, 1919, ¶ 263

  The Constitution provides that " the Congress, s whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary,' shall propose amendments to this Constitution." I~ does not provide that whenever two-thirds of both Houses think 1t "advisable." It does not provide that whenever two-thirds of both Houses think it "politic." It does not provide…

  The speaker quotes what "The Constitution provides", the opening of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 12, 1932, ¶ 533

  However that may be, our country has adopted 19 amendments in the manner provided for such changes by the Federal Constitution since its adoption.

  The paragraph names the manner the Constitution provides for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 95

  ' The framers of our Constitution provided a method of amendment.

  The paragraph names the method of amendment provided in the Constitution, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 136

  Article V of the Constitution makes no provision with reference to the time within which ratification may be had, either by the State legislatureS" or by the conventions assembled in the states.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number on the ratification of amendments by State legislatures or conventions.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 226

  But the Constitution itself says that no amendment may be considered unless it is submitted by

  The paragraph names what the Constitution says about the submission of amendments, which is set by Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 701

  Does the gentleman think that placing this amendment on the proposed constitutional amendment which, in effect, means the fifth article of the Constitution, the general article allowing for amendments; will give power to select a legislature which is to do the amending?

  The paragraph cites the fifth article of the Constitution by number, as the article allowing for amendments.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 702

  Oh, my amendment simply affects this particular proposed article to the Constitution and does not in the least change Article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 42

  I refuse to stand in the gateway in an attempt to prevent the people of the United States from amending their own Constitution in the way provided by the Constitution itself.

  The paragraph names the way of amending the Constitution that the Constitution itself provides, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 48

  Let it put in motion the referendum provided by the Nation's organic law-the method of amendment the States themselves established when they created the Constitution.

  The paragraph names the method of amendment provided by the Constitution, under which the States ratify what Congress submits; this is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 50

  Framers of the Constitution have provided that it is not easily changed and can only be changed by three-fourths of the States, and if three-fourths of the States want to amend the Constitution they have the right to do so.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution that amendments be ratified by three fourths of the States, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 199

  I may be wrong, but I incline to the belief that by reasonable interpretation the word " convention " as used in Article V of the Constitution precludes and repels the idea that the convention shall be called, elected, organized, or governed by congressional fiat.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number for its use of the word "convention".

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 211

  Article V of the Constitution provides:

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number and introduces its text, which is quoted in the next paragraph.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 212

  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 threefourths 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.

  The paragraph quotes Article V, introduced in the preceding paragraph as "Article V of the Constitution".

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 46

  Under Article V of the Constitution, Congress is authorized to propose amendments to the Constitution by two-thirds vote of both Houses and when proposed and ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or t.he other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress, then such amendment becomes a part of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number and quotes its words on ratification by the legislatures or by conventions in three fourths of the States.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 47

  Under Article V cited, Congress may propose a resolution either to the legislatures of the several States or to State conventions.

  The paragraph cites Article V by number for the choice by Congress of ratification by legislatures or conventions.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 95

  …that confronts us to-day in voting on this resolution is whether or not the American people should have the opportunity to express their convictions with finality on the subject by the lawful constitutional method provided by the fifth article of the Constitution, instead of being compelled to resort to newspaper and magazine straw votes, to find out what ought to be done about it.

  The paragraph cites the fifth article of the Constitution by number for the method of amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 98

  But, on the other hand, a vote against this resolution is a virtual annulment of the fifth article of the Constitution itself, which grants the right of submission of any proposal when there is an obvious popular demand for it.

  The paragraph cites the fifth article of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 161

  If reelected to Congress and the question comes before the House in the usual method of procedure, I shall vote for resubmission, preferably to State conventions called in accordance with constitutional provision.

  The quoted statement names the constitutional provision for ratification of amendments by State conventions, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947, ¶ 73

  Yet the Constitution itself clearly provides the methods of amendment, demonstrating that it was never the intention of the founding fathers to regard their _ work as finished for all time.

  The paragraph names the methods of amendment that the Constitution provides, which are set by Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947 (2), ¶ 346

  The Constitution provides that it may be done in either manner.

  Speaking of ratification by legislatures or by conventions, the paragraph names the provision of the Constitution allowing either, which is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947 (2), ¶ 583

  …of the Constitution provides: 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 twothirds 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.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number and quotes it; this run of words is the article's own.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947 (2), ¶ 595

  My contention is that the people as a whole are · qualified to pass upon the quest i on, and that the best way-and, in 'fact, in my opinion, the only way-that they can directly pass upon the question under the Constitution is to elect the several delegates . from the several States to a convention where the only issue in the .

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for ratification of amendments by conventions in the States, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, March 21, 1947, ¶ 67

  Three-fourths of the States must join two-thirds · of the Congress in ' an affirmative vote before the Constitution can be admended.

  The paragraph names the requirement of the Constitution that two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the States agree to an amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1960, ¶ 265

  Today as we deal with this measure we can pass it and amend our Constitution in the orderly manner provided in article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  House, June 14, 1960, ¶ 408

  Chairman, the Constitution should not be changed except by the amendment procedure specified in the Constitution itself.

  The paragraph names the procedure for amendment specified in the Constitution, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, August 27, 1962, ¶ 102

  What fairer method is there for removal of this questionable criteria than through a constitutional amendment, as is provided for under our Federal Constitution in our democratic system.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  House, August 27, 1962, ¶ 219

  However, a constitutional amendment which is confined to Federal elections and which is ratified by the States as the Constitution provides is not an unconstitutional invasion of States rights, and such an amendment I feel obliged to support.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

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  House, March 23, 1971, ¶ 244

  …a Constitutional Amendment, however, is an appropriate and legal procedure, which still leaves the ultimate question of ratification of the amendment to action by the several States, in accordance with Article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

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  House, March 23, 1971, ¶ 894

  …should first repeal the section 320 of the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, and then properly bring up for consideration the question of amending the constitution as provided in article V of that document.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

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  Senate, December 1, 1803, ¶ 21

  It is upon these principles our Constitution is founded ; it is for these words that the provision is made in the Constitution itself for its own amendment ; and it is not compatible wiihreason, or with the principles of the Constitution, la commit anything to capricious fortune, in which reason and human rights are concerned.

  The speaker names "the provision ... made in the Constitution itself for its own amendment"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 34

  …Constitution is very sacred to them, and it should not be altered; so it is 100, every word, sacred to roe; but among its most sacred parts, I find that the Constitution provides for its own alteration and amendment; nut indeed by a minority, but by a large majority in both Houses, and by a much larger majority of Slates.

  The speaker says "the Constitution provides for its own alteration and amendment ... by a large majority in both Houses, and by a much larger majority of States"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 39

  He said the Constitution had provided only two methods for obtaining amendments, and both are granted with great caution. If two-thirds of the several Stale Legislatures apply. Congress shall call a convention who are to propose amendments, which, when ratified by the conventions of three-fourths of the States, will be valid.

  The speaker sets out "only two methods for obtaining amendments" that the Constitution provides, a convention called on the application of two-thirds of the State Legislatures and proposal by two-thirds of both Houses, which are those of Article V.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 41

  For instance, the equal representation of each State in the Senate cannot be abridged without iisown consent.

  Speaking of the Constitution's provision for amendments, the speaker says "the equal representation of each State in the Senate cannot be abridged without its own consent," the last proviso of Article V.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 49

  …notice, be* cause the dislike of amendments is expressed bjr gentlemen who wish to have it believed that they are mote strongly attached to the Constitution than others; anil though the Conslitulion which they so ardently admire provides expressly for its own amendment.

  The speaker says the Constitution "provides expressly for its own amendment"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 52

  The Constitution has provided means more simple, and fully adequate; and, even though we might err in our determinations, the check of three-fourths of the Legislatures will be an adequate protection against the invasion of the public rights.

  Contrasting a convention with amendment by Congress, the speaker names the means the Constitution provides, with "the check of three-fourths of the Legislatures"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 70

  They go so far as to prohibit any amendment which may affect the equality of Suiesinlhe Senate.

  Speaking of the Constitution, the speaker names its prohibition of "any amendment which may affect the equality of States in the Senate" (OCR "Suiesinlhe"), the last proviso of Article V.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 114

  But, lest the daring and restive spirit of innovation should injure or destroy, under the specious name of amendment, that same wisdom and caution hath provided salutary " Two-thirds of both Houses of the Congress shall deem it necessary" to propose amendments ; and three-fourths of the State Legislatures shall ratify such amendments, before they acquire validity.

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, "Two-thirds of both Houses of the Congress shall deem it necessary" (adding "of the Congress"), and again "Two-thirds of both Houses," the words of Article V.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 117

  For the purpose of obtaining amendments to the Constitution, Congress can only propose and the State Legislaluresralify.

  The speaker says that to amend the Constitution "Congress can only propose and the State Legislatures ratify"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 132

  That of amendiDg the Constitution will suffice. Three-fourths of the States most concur in this object, because a less number or a majority of States might not contain a majority of people; therefore, the Constitution isnotamendalilebya majority of States, lest a species of State sovereignty…

  The speaker names the rule for "amending the Constitution," that three-fourths of the States must concur; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 167

  I thank God that ibe Convention were so enlightened as to place the equality of Slates in the Senate beyond the reach of amendment.

  The speaker names the placing of "the equality of States in the Senate beyond the reach of amendment," the last proviso of Article V.

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  Senate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 184

  In mis Senate the small States liave their security — their equal representation, and in the provision against any change being tiiade in their representation here without the consent of each.

  The speaker names the parts that "cannot be changed before 1808" and "the provision against any change being made in their representation here without the consent of each" State, which are in Article V.

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  Senate, November 23, 1803, ¶ 44

  Dangers of this kind he was solicitous to avoid ; and by that mild and benignant mode provided by the Constitution, that of amendment to the Constitution.

  The speaker names the "mode provided by the Constitution, that of amendment to the Constitution"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, November 24, 1803, ¶ 52

  Was derelopisg the election in particular circumstances in the House of Representatires intended fornoihin^l Was nothing meaol by Ihe provision of the CoDstitution, that no amendment should ever deprivetlieStaIe!i of ibe equality of votes in this HouKeT Yet, it was that jealous caution which foresaw the necessity of guarding against (he encroachments of large States.

  The speaker names "the provision of the Constitution, that no amendment should ever deprive the States of the equality of votes in this House" (the Senate), the last proviso of Article V. The words are garbled by OCR.

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  Senate, April 5, 1864, ¶ 61

  …the Constitution as it was then, admirably suited in their judgment to the wants of the people as they were, might prove inadequate to its cherished end; and they therefore provided by the fifth article of the Constitution for the amendment of the instrument itself, and placed the whole instrument subject to the pow r of amendment with exceptions, the exception as to the abolition of the slave trade until 1808, and the exception…

  The paragraph names "the fifth article of the Constitution" providing for amendment.

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  Senate, April 5, 1864, ¶ 63

  …adopting the Constitution as it is, to have provided by an express article for the termination of human slavery, why is it that it cannot be done by them now under the clause which gives to the people of the United States the authority to amend the Constitution?

  The paragraph names "the amendatory clause" and "the clause which gives to the people of the United States the authority to amend the Constitution", which is Article V.

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  Senate, April 5, 1864, ¶ 64

  The very clause under which we seek to put an end to the institution, the amendatory clause, may have been and in all probability was inserted info the instrument from a conviction that the time would come when justice would call so loudly for the extinction…

  The paragraph names "the amendatory clause" of the Constitution, which is Article V.

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  Senate, April 6, 1864, ¶ 2

  It cannot then be objected to on constitutional grounds, for the Constitution itself provides for this mode of amendment.

  The paragraph says the measure must pass by two thirds of each branch of Congress and receive the approval of the Legislatures of three fourths of the States, and that "the Constitution itself provides for this mode of amendment", naming Article V.

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  Senate, April 6, 1864, ¶ 81

  While 1 admit that it would have been perfectly competent for the original States to bind every party that came into their Union by such an agreement, I deny that that provision of the Constitution which empowers two thirds of the States to propose amendments, and three fourths of the States to ratify those amendments, gives to such two thirds or three fourths the power claimed for them by the honorable Senator.

  The paragraph names "that provision of the Constitution which empowers two thirds ... to propose amendments, and three fourths of the States to ratify", which is Article V.

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  Senate, April 7, 1864, ¶ 63

  It is provided that it shall not be amendable in only one particular, and that is," that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.'* In no other respect is there now any limitation whatever upon the power of amendment.

  The paragraph quotes the closing proviso of Article V as the one particular in which the Constitution may not be amended.

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  Senate, April 8, 1864, ¶ 253

  …shall be suppressed; and no State or the people thereofshall withdraw hom this Union without the consent of tlnee fourths ofall the States, expressed by an amendment proposed and ratified in the manner provided in article five of the Constitution.

  The substitute proposed by the Senator from Delaware names an amendment "ratified in the manner provided in article five of the Constitution".

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  Senate, March 31, 1864, ¶ 42

  What is the meaning of the clause that the Congress of the United States may propose amendments, which, when ratified by three fourths of the States, shall become a pal t of the Constitution?

  The paragraph names "the clause" by which Congress may propose amendments that become part of the Constitution when ratified by three fourths of the States, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 31, 1864, ¶ 43

  Madison, are parties to if and the plain, evident, honest import of this clause of the Constitution giving the power of ratification to three fourths of the States is and must he so understood by all right thinking men, that all the States shall have the power of passing upon that proposed amendment, of ratifyingor rejecting it, and…

  The paragraph names "this clause of the Constitution giving the power of ratification to three fourths of the States", which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 31, 1864, ¶ 52

  1 find in the Constitution as it now stands this provision: "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necs us aiy shall propose amendments to this Constitution, o>.

  The paragraph quotes "this provision" of "the Constitution as it now stands": the opening words of Article V.

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  Senate, March 31, 1864, ¶ 53

  1 understand that when those amendments shall be ratified, if they ever are, by three fourths of the States, they will be, in the language of the Constitution now," valid to all intents and purposes." But, says the Senator from Delaware, you cannot amend the Constitution in this particular; the framers of the Constitution did not anticipate that such an amendment would he proposed.

  The paragraph quotes "the language of the Constitution", "valid to all intents and purposes", and names "article five of this Constitution".

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  Senate, June 4, 1866, ¶ 7

  The Constitution requiies that two thirdsof the Senators, each answering for himself, shall agree to a proposed amendment before it can be submitted to the States.

  The paragraph names the requirement of the Constitution that two thirds of the Senators agree to a proposed amendment before it goes to the States, which is the opening provision of Article V.

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  Senate, June 4, 1866, ¶ 19

  I know very well the reply will be that the Constitution itself forbids an amendment of that instrument in respect to representation in the Senate; but, sir, the power that made that provision can unmake it; the power to amend the Constitution can reach that very provision and change the representation in the Senate.

  The quoted speech names the provision of the Constitution that forbids an amendment touching representation in the Senate, the closing proviso of Article V.

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  Senate, June 6, 1866, ¶ 163

  That is the position that the Senator from Ohio admits himself to occupy to day Upon a measure that two thirds of the Senate, under the Constitution, must approve before it can be submitted to the people, he subordinates his judgment to the will of a majority of his party friends in a caucus.

  The paragraph names the requirement of the Constitution that two thirds of the Senate approve an amendment before it is submitted, which is the opening provision of Article V.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869, ¶ 194

  …respect for the opinion of the Senator from Kansas on questions of order and every other question, and for the opinions of others with whom I have consulted; but, sir, the Constitution requires that any amendment of the Constitution submitted to the States shall have the approval of two thirds of each House.

  The paragraph says "the Constitution requires that any amendment of the Constitution submitted to the States shall have the approval of two thirds of each House"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869, ¶ 206

  The Constitution requires on the adoption of a constitutional amendment that two thirds shall agree to it; but on all questions of parliamentary form only a majority is required, unless the rule expressly requires two thirds and the Senate can propose by a majority vote any…

  The paragraph says "the Constitution requires on the adoption of a constitutional amendment that two thirds shall agree to it"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 76

  This motion is in effect the same thing; only the Constitution requires that &a amendment to the Constitution shall pass by a two thirds vote; and to that extent, as I understand, the Senate decides that the rule of the Senate is modified so that it is necessary not only to recede from the…

  The paragraph says "the Constitution requires that an amendment to the Constitution shall pass by a two thirds vote"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 687

  "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose^ amendments to this Constitution, or on the application ot the legislatures of two thirds of the several State, shall eitU a convention for proposing amendments, which, la cither ca e *haH be valid…

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, what "the Constitution provides" on proposing and ratifying amendments, Article V.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 689

  The Constitution provides that Congress may propose amendments to the Constitution, to be ratified either by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States or by conventions in three fourths of the States. There is no limitation as to the Legislatures to which the amendment may be proposed.

  The paragraph gives the substance of what "the Constitution provides" on proposing amendments and their ratification by Legislatures or conventions; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 697

  The amendment clause of the Constitution gives to Congress a discretionary power in submitting amendments. Congress may submit them to the Legislatures of the several States—these words being used as general words of description merely, and not as words limiting the power—or may submit them…

  The paragraph names "the amendment clause of the Constitution", Article V.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 709

  In the first place, in the fifth article of the Constitution the power is confided to Congress" whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary" to propose amendments to the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites "the fifth article of the Constitution" and quotes, in quotation marks, its words "whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary".

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 711

  The Constitution says that the question of amendments to its provisions shall be submitted ta the Legislature? of the States. It means, of course, existing Legislatures.

  The paragraph says "the Constitution says that the question of amendments to its provisions shall be submitted to the Legislatures of the States"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 17, 1869 (2), ¶ 735

  The Constitution provides that amendments to the fundamental law proposed by Congress may be submitted for ratification, and shall be valid 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.

  The paragraph gives the words of what "the Constitution provides" on the ratification of amendments, from Article V.

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  Senate, February 26, 1869, ¶ 207

  Our Constitution requires that before it shall be changed by the action of Congress two thirds of each branch shall concur. The presumption is that each branch reflects the popular will; the Senate reflecting the will of the States, and the House the will of the people; and that before the…

  The paragraph says "our Constitution requires that before it shall be changed by the action of Congress two thirds of each branch shall concur"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 26, 1869 (2), ¶ 47

  Another point of more importance: it is my opinion, and I take this occasion to express il, that the amendment power of the Constitution does not authorize this change. It is my idea that the amendment, clause has some limitations, the leading and principal one of which being that an amendment must be within the scope and purpose of the original instrument.

  The paragraph names "the amendment power of the Constitution" and "the amendment clause", Article V.

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  Senate, February 26, 1869 (2), ¶ 50

  …who shall choose your presidential electors; you may provide that your electoral colleges shall be abolished and that your President, shall be chosen in a different manner; you might provide, were it not for a particular clause of the Constitution, that the States should be represented in this body in a different manner from what they now are.

  The paragraph names "a particular clause of the Constitution" that keeps an amendment from changing the States' representation in the Senate; only the last proviso of Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 26, 1869 (2), ¶ 70

  The Constitution provides that "whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary" they shall propose amendments to the Constitution. Now, sir, I submit that in the exercise of this power of amendment under the Constitution every Senator when he votes for this proposition in his place says to his…

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, what "the Constitution provides" on proposing amendments, words of Article V.

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  Senate, February 26, 1869 (2), ¶ 92

  Tbo Congress whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary," &c.

  The paragraph quotes, as "the language of the Constitution" introduced in the previous paragraph, the opening words of Article V ("Tbo" is an OCR form of "The").

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  Senate, February 5, 1869 (3), ¶ 55

  It is as follows: The Congress, whenever two thirdsof 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, tn either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths ofthoscveral States, or by conventions…

  The paragraph reads "the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States" and quotes it nearly in full.

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  Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 296

  You cannot find a word in the Constitution which makes a limit upon the right of the people to amend it, except in that article which declared that" no amendment which may be made prior to 1808 shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses of the ninth section of the first article."

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the article of the Constitution which limits amendment before 1808, the proviso of Article V.

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  Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 300

  It does not say that you shall not take it away by an amendment, but simply sets out the broad, distinct proposition that "no State shall without its consent be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." Now, sir, the only shackle that the people of the United States put upon the power of amendment was that which was to go to perpetuate slavery ia this country…

  The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, what "the Constitution expressly forbids": that no State shall without its consent be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, the last words of Article V.

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  Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 301

  …not what the extent of them is, how great or how little, certain it is that in that instrument they all lie and are all there granted or conceded; and there is not one right except that of equal senatorial representation which cannot be taken away from any State by a constitutional amendment passed by two thirds of Congress and ratified by three fourths of the States.

  The paragraph names the one right, "equal senatorial representation", which a constitutional amendment cannot take away from a State; only the last proviso of Article V fits.

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  Senate, February 9, 1869, ¶ 59

  President, the Constitution provides that in submitting a proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States to the people Congress may elect between two modes of submission, may either submit it to the Legislatures for their ratification or to conventions in the States.

  The paragraph says "the Constitution provides" that Congress may submit a proposed amendment to the Legislatures or to conventions in the States; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, January 23, 1869, ¶ 26

  Article five of the Constitution, which relates to the proposition of amendments by Congress, provides that—

  The paragraph cites "Article five of the Constitution", which the next paragraph quotes.

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  Senate, January 23, 1869, ¶ 27

  …thirdsof both Houses shall deem itnecessary shallproposeamendinentsto 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 caseshall be valid to allintents 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 tho other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress."

  The paragraph quotes the first part of Article V, introduced in the previous paragraph as "Article five of the Constitution" (several words run together by OCR).

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  Senate, January 23, 1869, ¶ 36

  I suppose there would be full power in Congress to legislate in regard to the mode of choosing conventions- The Constitution provides that Congi gress may submit amendments to conventions of the States, ami if my colleague will look at the Constitution he will see that the subject is left, I might say.

  The paragraph says "the Constitution provides that Congress may submit amendments to conventions of the States", and that "the language is, that it may be submitted to the Legislatures or conventions"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, January 29, 1869, ¶ 21

  The Constitution provides that Congress may propose such amendments as in its own judgment it shall think best and proper. If a proposition of that kind were made it is very true it might be objected "this goes to the foundation of your Government; this is not amendment; it is…

  The paragraph says "the Constitution provides that Congress may propose such amendments" as it thinks best; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, January 29, 1869, ¶ 25

  When the Constitution was formed provision Was made *liat. amendments to it might be submitted to the Legislatures or to conventions in the various States. XDf course the intention was that Congress should select and judge as between these forms of submission; but can any man suppose that at.

  The paragraph names the provision made when the Constitution was formed that amendments "might be submitted to the Legislatures or to conventions in the various States"; only Article V fits.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 49

  The Constitution only requires that three-fourths of the States shall ratify the amendment; · and if the remaining States did not hold conventions, the amendment would become a valid part of the Constitution whether they ever acted at all or not.

  The speaker says "The Constitution only requires that three-fourths of the States shall ratify the amendment", the rule of ratification in Article V.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 63

  That is provided in Article V of the Constituticn.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" as providing for conventions to ratify amendments.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 66

  The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the le g islaturei of two-thirds of the several State s , shall call a convention for proposing amendments.

  The paragraph quotes the opening of Article V.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 71

  Or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed· by the Congress.

  The paragraph continues the reading of Article V with its words on ratification by conventions.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 79

  The Constitution says that amendments to the Constitution shall be ratified by legislatures or conventions.

  The speaker says "The Constitution says that amendments to the Constitution shall be ratified by legislatures or conventions", the provision of Article V on ratification.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 83

  Then it pro.-vides an alternative "' ar by conventions in three-fourths thereof ••-three-fourths of the States-" as the one or the other mode- ot ratification may be proposed by the Congress 0 ·

  Mr. Heyburn calls attention "to the language" and quotes the words of Article V on ratification "by conventions in three-fourths thereof" (OCR "ar", "ot").

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 227

  That clause of the Constitution which provides for its own amendment particularly points out the way in which it shall be done.

  The speaker names "That clause of the Constitution which provides for its own amendment", which is Article V.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 228

  It says that such joint resolutions shall receive the consent of two-thirds of the Members of both Houses.

  Continuing from the clause "which provides for its own amendment" (paragraph 227), the speaker says it requires "the consent of two-thirds of the Members of both Houses", the opening rule of Article V.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 281

  .As I read Article V of the Constitution, which is the article providing for amendments, a state legislature has nothing to do with the question whether or not an amendment shall be submitted to a convention.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution, which is the article providing for amendments".

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 288

  .Article V does not vest power in the legislature of a State to call a convention .

  The speaker names Article V and what it says about who decides between ratification by legislatures and by conventions.

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 291

  I merely gave out the suggestion because it seemed naturally to grow out of the language of Article V .

  The speaker refers to "the language of Article V".

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  Senate, July 5, 1909 (2), ¶ 312

  Is there anything unrepublican about following the method the Constitution says we can follow and referring to the legislatures of the country the question whether or not the Federal Constitution shall be amended?

  The speaker names "the method the Constitution says we can follow", referring amendments to the state legislatures, which is the provision of Article V on ratification.

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  Senate, June 12, 1911, ¶ 330

  Provisions aforesaid · .ha-ye t ..been :-consiaered agreealily to tlre 'fifth article ·of said • constitution, · to · exert 11 their influence and use all reasonable · antl ilegal methods -to · obtain : U ratification .

  The ratification resolution of Massachusetts, read by the speaker, names "the fifth article of said constitution" (OCR damage) on amendment.

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  Senate, June 13, 1911, ¶ 225

  …or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill." Article V declares that "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution," etc.

  The opinion the speaker reads quotes the opening of "Article V".

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  Senate, June 13, 1911, ¶ 238

  I also call the attention of the Senator from Georgia to Article V of the Constitution, which provides-

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and quotes it in the next paragraph.

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  Senate, June 13, 1911, ¶ 241

  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 o! the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments.

  The paragraph quotes the opening of Article V.

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  Senate, June 13, 1911, ¶ 264

  The provision for amendment to the Con stitution provides two ways. One leaves it in the discretion of the Congress, and if it stopped there, there might be force in the position taken by the Senator from Georgia.

  The speaker names "The provision for amendment to the Constitution" and its two ways of proposing amendments, including a convention "When two-thirds of the States ask it", which is Article V.

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  Senate, June 7, 1911, ¶ 6

  …me say this to you, and I say it with all the earnestness and sincerity that I possess: With that amendment in the joint resolution you imperil and jeopardize the ratification of the joint resolution by three-fourths of the States, as required by the Constitution.

  The speaker names the "ratification of the joint resolution by three-fourths of the States, as required by the Constitution", the rule of Article V.

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  Senate, June 7, 1911, ¶ 20

  Three-fourths of the States and not three-fourths of the people must ratify this act. The power to amend stands isolated and al o ne upon the pages of that imperishable document, the power that obvia.tes the necessity of revolution, because the States, when they speak, speak under the grant and…

  The speaker names the Constitution's "power to amend" and its rule that "Three-fourths of the States" must ratify, which is Article V.

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  Senate, June 7, 1911, ¶ 115

  Article V of the Constitution, which provides--

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and quotes it in the exchange that follows.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, June 7, 1911, ¶ 117

  It provides— that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Sena:te.

  The paragraph quotes the closing proviso of Article V, named in the exchange just before.

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  Senate, June 7, 1911, ¶ 186

  The Constitution says that we- may propose amendments to the people.

  The speaker names what "The Constitution says" about Congress proposing amendments and the "constitutional number" of States, the provisions of Article V.

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  Senate, May 24, 1911, ¶ 152

  I agree with the Senator, and that view of the case I had heretofore intended to present; but when the Constitution says that upon request of two-thirds of the States we shall take certain action we are not authorized to take it at the request of less than the number specified in the Constitution.

  The speaker names what "the Constitution says" Congress shall do "upon request of two-thirds of the States", the provision of Article V for calling a convention.

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  Senate, May 24, 1911, ¶ 178

  The Constitution says how we shall act, and it says it in no ambiguous terms. It does not say that if the people clamor for something we shall submit amendments to the Constitution.

  Speaking of Congress's power to propose amendments, the speaker says "The Constitution says how we shall act", that is, "upon our own judgment", the provision of Article V ("whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary").

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  Senate, May 24, 1911, ¶ 242

  I call his attention to the fact that Article V, which provides how amendments shall be made, provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the two Houses of Congress, when two-thirds consent, or by a convention; but in either event the amendment is simply…

  The speaker names "Article V, which provides how amendments shall be made", and sets out its modes of proposal and ratification.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 23

  Concede that the only presently important limitation on amendment in Article V of the Constitution provides that no State shall be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate without its consent, this specified limitation on the power of amendment in no way concludes J the proposition that States can be deprived of their reserved powers without their consent.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and its limitation that "no State shall be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate without its consent".

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 174

  It knew there was n provision in " the Federal Constitution that constitutional amen<1ments might be submitted and that if ratified by threefourths of the States the other one-fourth would have to submit to it as the dominant law of the · laml.

  The speaker names "a provision in the Federal Constitution that constitutional amendments might be submitted" and ratified by three-fourths of the States, which is Article V.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 185

  The Constitution provides that-

  The speaker introduces the provision of the Constitution for its amendment and reads Article V in the next paragraph.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 186

  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.

  The paragraph quotes Article V, up to its proviso.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 205

  While I have not had the opportunity to examine any of the decisions of the courts on the subject, it seems to me that the amendment of very doubtful constitutionality The Constitution of the United States provides how the Constitution may he . amended, but it places no · limitation ·whatever as to the time within which the States may act through their legislatures upon any amendment which may be submitted by Congress.

  The speaker says "The Constitution of the United States provides how the Constitution may be amended" and sets no time for ratification, which is the provision of Article V.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 266

  The people when we established the Union said that this Constitution must be amended in a particular way, and prescribed the rules therefor, and according to those rules this matter must and ought to be determined.

  The speaker says the people "said that this Constitution must be amended in a particular way, and prescribed the rules therefor", the rules of Article V.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 327

  The time therein pro-vided is "when ratified," and by that rule this amendment is controlled.

  The speaker says that under "the Constitution as it now exists" there is no time limit for ratification, quoting its words "when ratified" (Article V).

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 335

  l\fr Pre ident the Senator from Ohio has read· Article V of the· Constituti'on and that article of the Constitution itself gives an example of explicit limitation by providing that there shall be no amendment prior to 1808.

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and its limitation on amendments before 1808.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 347

  The Constitution itself authorizes the submission of amendments to the Constitution by a joint resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of Congress. There is no limitation attached to that.

  The speaker says "The Constitution itself authorizes the submission of amendments" by a two-thirds vote of Congress, the provision of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 370

  Article V of the Constitution, providing how amendments shall be submitted to the States for the approval of their legislatures or State conventions, says that amendments- ::. shall be valid to aU intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States. ' The Constitution itself, therefore, provides that an amendment shall be ratified when approved by the legislatures of threefourths of the States; and I think there is no question that…

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and quotes it: amendments "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".

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 381

  …time watch is set, and whenever it strikes a certain way that concludes the matter, while if it strikes the other way it is still open to further action, because, under the language of Article V of the Constitution, it becomes valid when approved, irrespective of how many times it has been disapproved before that.

  The speaker names "the language of Article V of the Constitution" on when an amendment becomes valid.

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  Senate, August 1, 1917, ¶ 421

  Amend Article V of the said Constitution by adding thereto · th e fol - lowing, to wit : I • "Pro vi ded, That all amendments to the Constitution so propose: · etl and submitted to…

  The proposed amendment read in the paragraph would "Amend Article V" of the Constitution by adding a time limit for ratification.

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  Senate, July 30, 1917, ¶ 28

  The method ordained by the Federal Constitution for its own alteration is being strictly followed. If the proposed amendment should be adopted by three-fourths of the States, the traffic in intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes would be forbidden anywhere within the .

  The speaker names "The method ordained by the Federal Constitution for its own alteration" and adoption "by three-fourths of the States", the provisions of Article V.

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  Senate, July 30, 1917, ¶ 95

  …State should, 1 without its consent, be affected in its internal police or deprived of Its equal representation m the Senate, and every Southern State, except Delaware, voted "No." Later a provision that no State -should, without i - its consent, be deprived of equal suffrage in the Senate was added to the amending clause. Thus by th~ votes of , Southern States the power to .amend the Federal Con tltutio~ was. vested m three-fourths .of the S~at~, the only exception being the matter of equal representation m the United States Senate.

  The speaker names "the amending clause" of the Constitution, its rule that "no State should, without its consent, be deprived of equal suffrage in the Senate", and the vesting of the amending power in three-fourths of the States, Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, July 30, 1917, ¶ 99

  Having vested the :POW-er of amending r the 'Constitution in three-fourths of their number, th-e States provided that Collt:,<YI"ess, whenever two-thirds of both Houses should deem it , necessary, should propose amendment~ meaning, 1 0f course, whenever - tw.o­ thirds of Congress shoul-d deem proposal necessary.

  The speaker gives the provision for proposing amendments in nearly the words of Article V, "whenever two-thirds of both Houses should deem it necessary, should propose amendments" ("should" for "shall").

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  Senate, July 30, 1917, ¶ 249

  by the Congress of the United States to the legislatures of the several States for ratification, according to the provisions of the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States: Provided, That such amendment may not have been acted upon at any preceding session of said legislature.

  The proposed resolution read by the speaker names "the provisions of the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States" for ratification of amendments.

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  Senate, July 30, 1917, ¶ 275

  That State has joined in the ratification of a constitution which provides. that an amendment applying to all the States of the Union can be submitted to the States, an.d if ratified by, three-fourths. thereof. shall become binding on each State.

  The speaker names the provision of the Constitution that an amendment may be submitted to the States and, "if ratified by three-fourths thereof", binds every State, which is Article V.

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  Senate, July 31, 1917, ¶ 5

  This amendment conforms , of course, to the constitutional requirements as to the manner and method in which the Constitution may be amended, and can not, therefore, be assailed as violative of the letter of the Constitution.

  The speaker names "the constitutional requirements as to the manner and method in which the Constitution may be amended", which are in Article V.

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  Senate, July 31, 1917, ¶ 21

  The Constitution provides the way for its amendment. Congress can not do it, but it can propose amendments to the people, who alone can adopt them through their State legislatures.

  The speaker says "The Constitution provides the way for its amendment": Congress proposes and the States adopt through their legislatures, the provisions of Article V.

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  Senate, July 31, 1917, ¶ 273

  I am thel'ef<Jre greatly pleased that we will · soon be able to vote on this resolution, and I sincerely hope that the necessary two-thirds- vote required by · the Constitution will respond to the roll call.

  The speaker names "the necessary two-thirds vote required by the Constitution" to propose the amendment, the rule of Article V.

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  Senate, December 18, 1917, ¶ 32

  The Constitution of the United States provides in unmistakable language when a provision of the Constitution shall go into effect, and it is not within the power of the Congress, by incorporating a different provision in _a proposed amendment to change the law of the land.

  The speaker says "The Constitution of the United States provides in unmistakable language when a provision of the Constitution shall go into effect", which is the provision of Article V on when amendments become valid.

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  Senate, December 18, 1917, ¶ 56

  To recapitulate the Constitution of the United States as it ' now stands provides that a proposed amendment to the Constitution shall become a part of the Constitution "when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States." "When;" that is, as soon after submission as tHree-fourths of the States ratify, it shall become a part o:f the Constitution.

  The speaker quotes what "the Constitution of the United States as it now stands provides", "when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States" ("legislature" for "Legislatures"), and names "article V of the Constitution".

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  Senate, June 3, 1919 (2), ¶ 75

  But the Senator forgets that in this Constitution, to 'vltich we are now proposing amendment, express provision is made for amendment, and ratified by three-fourths of the States after having b-een adopted by two - thirds of the Congre s, it becomes a part of the Constitution, and is as much a part of the Constitution of the United States as are any of the other provisions.

  The speaker names the "express provision" made in the Constitution for amendment, ratification by three-fourths of the States after adoption by two-thirds of Congress, which is Article V.

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  Senate, June 3, 1919 (2), ¶ 85

  So far as the right of 33 Senators to hold up an amendment is concerned, the fathers provided that . when two-thirds of the Senators and Representatives determined to sub-mit an amendment it should be submitted.

  The speaker names the provision of the Constitution that an amendment is submitted when two-thirds of the Senators and Representatives so determine, which is Article V.

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  Senate, June 3, 1919 (2), ¶ 111

  The Constitution provides a method that never has been exercised ln the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution, and that is t<> authorize the Congress to submit amendments to the Constitution to conventions called for the purpose of ratification…

  The speaker names the method "The Constitution provides" of submitting amendments to conventions for ratification, the provision of Article V.

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  Senate, June 3, 1919 (2), ¶ 115

  Tl!B language of tlre Constitution is familiar to the Members of this body, lmtin order that it may .appear in the fiECO.RD I will read Article v .of the Constitution of the United Rtat e R, which ::nys:

  The speaker names "Article V of the Constitution" and reads it in the next paragraph.

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  Senate, June 3, 1919 (2), ¶ 116

  Til·• Congress, IVIJPnHN two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it neee> ssary , shall propose tm~en<llllt>nts to this Constitution or on the app !! :1lio n of 1:1(• l rg islatur < ~of two-thirds of the several 'states, shall -call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either ease shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution when ratified by tllil legislatures of three--fourths . of the several States .or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode o:f ratification may be proposed by the Congress: Provid-ed That no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 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.

  The paragraph quotes Article V in full (OCR damage at the start).

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  Senate, June 3, 1919 (2), ¶ 193

  I hear men justify themselves in voting to submit an amend- in ment to tile Federal Constitution because they say the Constitution itself provides for its amendment, and therefore we are justified in proposing the amendment.

  The speaker refers to the argument that "the Constitution itself provides for its amendment", which it does in Article V.

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  Senate, June 4, 1919, ¶ 145

  They proceeded With the amendment through the Congress of the United States, according to the rules laid down by the Constitution.

  The speaker says the prohibition amendment went through Congress "according to the rules laid down by the Constitution", two-thirds of the Members voting for it, and was ratified by the States, the rules of Article V.

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  Senate, June 4, 1919, ¶ 156

  It is no more an innovation if my amendment is · adopted than the joint resolution would be as it stands as originally drafted, because the Constitution itself provides two modes of ratification, and it is left entirely optional with the Congress as to which mode shall be adopted.

  The speaker says "the Constitution itself provides two modes of ratification", left to the choice of Congress, the provision of Article V.

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  Senate, June 4, 1919, ¶ 361

  The Constitution, as the Senate is aware, provides for ratification by three-fourths of the several States "by the legislatures or by conventions, as one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress." Therefore the Congress can propose, as the exclusive method of ratification, ratification by conventions; and I take it that the Congress can also propose the method by which these conventions…

  The speaker quotes what "The Constitution ... provides" for ratification, ending in the words of Article V, "as one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress".

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 43

  However, my own judgment is that that ought to be brought about by separate amendment to the Constitution amending the provision of the Constitution relating to the submission of amendments, and that we ought to state in that just what time should elapse before a proposed amendment, if not ratified within that time, would become void.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution relating to the submission of amendments, which is Article V.

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 52

  President, · thanks to the courtesy of the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a subcommittee is now sitting and started hearings yesterday on various proposals for amending the :fifth article of the Constitution, which, Senators will remember, deals with the question of amendments and how they may be submitted and how they may be adopted.

  The paragraph cites the fifth article of the Constitution by number and names its subject, the making of amendments.

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 53

  President, that the principal reason given by the advocates of a change in Article V is that the Supreme Court has decided by various decisions that it is impossible for the citizens of a State to pass a law or an amendment to their own…

  The paragraph names Article V by number as the article that proposals before a subcommittee would change.

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 55

  I hope very much that the Senator from Nebraska, the chairman of the committee, will give the Senate an opportunity to debate and to pass upon whatever amendment to Article V his committee :finds will best meet the needs of the situation as we find it to-day.

  The paragraph names Article V by number as the article a committee amendment would change.

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 56

  President, I want to assure the Senator that I am in favor of amending Article V of the Constitution; and a great many suggestions are made as to how it should be amended.

  The paragraph names Article V of the Constitution by number as the article to be amended.

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 71

  Will the Senator permit me to say that he has just given the most cogent and logical reason for a change in Article V, for the reason that at present practically the only way we can get an amendment to the Constitution adopted is through the legislatures whose members are elected for quite other objects.

  The paragraph names Article V by number and its provision for ratification of amendments by the legislatures.

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  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 74

  President, since the Constitution provides only two methods of ratification-one by the legislatures and the other by conventions-and gives Congress the right to say which method shall be adopted, when Congress provides that the legislatures shall ratify has it any further power to say what legislature • .

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for ratification of amendments by legislatures or by conventions, as Congress chooses, which is Article V.

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  Senate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 11

  On March 9, 1928, the House acted on it, and, while it received a large majority of those voting, it failed to receive the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution.

  The paragraph says the joint resolution failed in the House to receive the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution, naming the requirement of Article V that two thirds of both Houses propose an amendment.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 220

  Such an amendment should promptly be submitted to the States by Congress, to be acted upon by State conventions called for that sole purpose 1n accordance with the provisions of Article V of the Constitution and adequately safeguarded so as to be truly representative.

  The quoted party platform cites Article V of the Constitution by number for submission of an amendment to State conventions.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 367

  Of course, it was contemplated by the framers of the Constitution that Congress might at some time refer an amendment to conventions; otherwise they would not have mentioned conventions as one of the methods of ratification.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution mentioning conventions as one of the methods of ratifying amendments, which is Article V.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 430

  Well, in the absence of any prohibition or restriction in the Constitution as to the method of submitting resolutions except that they shall be submitted either to the legislatures or to conventions, it can not be successfully contended that Congress has no power at all to fix any of the conditions except as to time.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for submitting amendments either to the legislatures or to conventions, which is Article V.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 502

  …to determine the exact limitations on the Federal power and on the power of Congress nor the extent of the authority that is vested in the State by virtue of the constitutional provision which authorizes the ratification of amendments.

  The paragraph names the constitutional provision authorizing the ratification of amendments, which is Article V.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 630

  Such an amendment should be promptly submitted to the States by Congress, to be acted upon by State · conventions called for that sole purpose in accordance with the provisions of Article V of the Constitution-

  The quoted party platform cites Article V of the Constitution by number for submission of an amendment to State conventions.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 751

  Under Article V, the Congress has power to propose amendments.

  The paragraph cites Article V by number for the power of Congress to propose amendments.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 813

  The Constitution provides for two methods of amending the Constitution, and the convention method is one of them, and when I vote to send the matter to the people for ratification, if three-fourths of the Congress shall favor it, I see the inconsistency of saying that I…

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for two methods of ratifying amendments, one by conventions, which is Article V.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 855

  I take it that when the Constitution provided that the Congress shall by two-thirds vote submit a proposed amendment to the Constitution it was intended that the Members of the Congress should themselves use some judgment of their own and not depend entirely upon the will of even a…

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution that Congress propose amendments by a two-thirds vote, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947, ¶ 283

  As is, of course, known to everyone, the Constitution provides, by its terms, how it should be amended, thus indicating that even its framers recognized that developments in regard to the Nation's progress and economy might well - warrant some modification.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution on how it is to be amended, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 153

  …this character , limiting the terms of the President, but I do not believe that the convention method of ratification is the best method to carry out democratic processes, although the convention method is authorized by the Constitution.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution authorizing ratification of amendments by conventions, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 267

  …very clear distinction, presented by article V of the Constitution, between ratification by legislatures and ratification by conventions, because that article pro vides for the validity of an amendment "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 propo posed by the Congress." .

  The paragraph cites article V of the Constitution by number and quotes its words on ratification by legislatures or by conventions.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 304

  Article V thereof provides that the Congress shall determine whether ratification shall be by conventions in the several States, or by the legislatures thereof.

  The quoted decision cites Article V of the Federal Constitution by number for the choice by Congress of ratification by conventions or legislatures.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 310

  forming this function rests upon the authority of article V of the Constitution of the United States : It is a Federal function, which in the absence of action by the Congress, the State legislature is authorized to perform.

  The quoted decision cites article V of the Constitution by number.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 313

  I observe also in the annotations of the United States Code, annotated, with respect to article V of the Constitution, this language:

  The paragraph cites article V of the Constitution by number.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 317

  BARKLEY], the minority leader, and the remarks which I made a few moments ago, to the general effect that it would seem perfectly clear that under article V of the Constitution it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution either that the legislatures shall be the ratifying bodies, or that conventions shall · be the ratifying bodies.

  The paragraph cites article V of the Constitution by number for ratification by legislatures or by conventions.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 318

  President, by the language which I read a few moments ago from that article, that if any legislature should resolve itself into a convention it would be a clear nullification of the intention of article V.

  The paragraph cites article V by number, the article it has just quoted.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 326

  In that connection, I reiterate that article V clearly, it seems to me: contemplates that the legislatures have no power to do so, because article V distinctly discriminates between legislatures on the one hand and conventions on the other.

  The paragraph cites article V by number for its distinction between ratification by legislatures and by conventions.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 334

  Article V of the Constitution clearly and obviously dis ti ngui s hes between the two, and expresses the intent of the framers of the Constitution, that the choice must be made between the legislature on the one hand and the convention on the o…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number for its distinction between ratification by legislatures and by conventions.

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  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 337

  As one Member of the Senate, I want to reiterate most strongly that to my mind any legislature which undertakes to resolve itself into a convention is violating the Constitution, to wit, article V.

  The paragraph cites article V of the Constitution by number.

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  Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 104

  The Constitution clearly provides procedures for its own amendment.

  The paragraph names the procedures the Constitution provides for its amendment, which are in Article V.

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  Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 111

  · Article 5 of the Constitution proVides for its amendment as follows:

  The paragraph cites Article 5 of the Constitution by number and introduces its text, quoted in the next paragraph.

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  Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 112

  "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 ot 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 ot the several · States, or by conventions 1n three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other m .

  The paragraph quotes Article V, introduced in the preceding paragraph; this run of words is the article's own.

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  Senate, January 27, 1960, ¶ 29

  It is pertinent to recall that, as a constitutional amendment, this measure must secure the approval of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and the ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.

  The committee report names the requirement that a constitutional amendment pass two thirds of both Houses and be ratified by three fourths of the State legislatures, which is Article V.

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  Senate, January 28, 1960 (4), ¶ 338

  …disinterestedly, to redefine the qualifications of electors for the most numerous branch of the State legislature; second, by the people of the several states, acting c:ollectively and disinterestedly, to redefine, by the process of amendment in the manner prescribed in article v, the qualifications of electors as previously set forth in the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites article V by number for the process of amendment.

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  Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 168

  Let the Congress by a majority vote so declare, and the necessity of amendment the Constitution as the Founding Fathers directed us to do in article V would be obviated.

  The paragraph cites article V by number for the amendment of the Constitution.

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  Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 264

  Of course, under the Constitution the Congress has the power to propose any lqnd of constitutional amendment-either a wise one or a foolish one; and if such an amendment, whether wise or foolish, were proposed, and if the necessary measure :were passed by two-thirds vote of…

  The paragraph names the power of Congress under the Constitution to propose amendments by a two-thirds vote, ratified by three fourths of the State legislatures, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 8

  1196 a proposal submitting an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for ratification by the several States, by the method prescribed in article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

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  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 15

  All of the machinery for the amendment of the Constitution of the United States is found in article V of the Constitution, which appears at page 518 of the Senate Manual.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 15

  It reads as follows: 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 an 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…

  The paragraph quotes Article V.

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  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 16

  The article goes on to state that no amendment which may be made prior to 1808 shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses of the ninth section of the first article, and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

  The paragraph quotes Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 17

  The Constitution provides for no act or function on the part of the Chief Magistrate of this Republic in amending the Constitution of the United States.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 20

  The Constitution itself specifically prescribes the rules for amending that document.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 14, 1962, ¶ 21

  The Constitution provides the method for its amendment.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 15, 1962 (3), ¶ 99

  …when it was adopted, that the regular way to go about changing fundamental law in any State or in all States is to proceed by way of the submission of a constitutional amendment, which requires the approval of three-fourths of the States before it can become operative; and is it not also true that that right existed long before Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or any of the later admitted States came into the

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

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  Senate, March 15, 1962 (4), ¶ 12

  Senate Joint Resolution 58 and the language of the amendment now proposed in the nature of a substitute follow the language arid procedure required by article 5 of the Constitution, providing for the amendatory process.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

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  Senate, March 15, 1962 (4), ¶ 14

  The interpretation by the Supreme Court in the Hollingsworth case conclusively demonstrates that the legislative machinery to be utilized in implementing article 5 of the U.S.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 16, 1962 (4), ¶ 5

  Let the Congress by a majority vote so declare, and the necessity of amending the Constitution as the Founding Fathers di- rected us to do in article V would be obviated.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 308

  Article V of the U.S.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 309

  Article V of the Constitution provides the method and manner of amendment, as fol­ "The Congress, · whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution,…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 360

  …constitutions by these purported legislatures, the matter of ratification of the 14th amendment as a condition to permission by Congress for the exercise of suffrage of the Southern States (violating article V of the U.S.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 402

  But, the desirability of an amendment to the Constitution cannot accomplish the adoption thereof, nor can the passage of time override the specific provisions of article V which details the only method by which the Constitution can be changed.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 413

  …Senators or Representatives from any specified States without even a hearing was not a judging, but rather an arbitrary deprivation of the equal suffrage of these States in violation of Article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 419

  The proclamation of the Secretary of State added no more to the compliance with the requirements of article V of the Constitution than if there had been not a single ratification.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 438

  The only r.emedy which would reestablish the checks and balances contemplated by the framers of the Constitution with safety against a willful congressional majority would be an amendment to article V -of the Constitution, conferring on the judiciary the authority to determine whether an amendment has been adopted.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 308

  Constitution provides: "No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." Nevertheless, peace having been restored, the U.S.

  The paragraph quotes words of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 309

  …both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or on application of the legislatures of twothirds of the States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, 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 threefourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress."

  The paragraph quotes Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 351

  Among the most sacred guarantees of that instrument are those which declare that 'each State shall have at least one Representative,' and that 'no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.' Each House is made the 'judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own Members,' and may, 'with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.' Thus, as heretofore…

  The paragraph quotes words of Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962 (2), ¶ 201

  The Constitution provides: The Congress whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution.

  The paragraph quotes words of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 19, 1962 (2), ¶ 209

  Certainly the Constitution of the United States provides for its own amendment.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 20, 1962 (5), ¶ 83

  Of course, we realize that the Constitution provides the method by which the Constitution itself may be amended and the only way in which it may be amended, and certainly Congress has no right by an act to amend the Constitution.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 21, 1962 (2), ¶ 61

  Although the proposals presently be­ fore the Senate have similar objectives; Senate Joint Resolution 58 would amend the Constitution in accordance with the requirements of article V.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (3), ¶ 2

  The Constitution itself prescribes the only manner in which it may be amended.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (4), ¶ 198

  Article 5.09 of the election code was amended, omitting deaf or dumb persons from the above exemption (election code, 1960 supp.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 30

  AMENDMENT PROCEDURE ESTABLISHED BY ARTICLE V

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 31

  Article V of the Constitution sets forth the procedure for amendment proposals and ratifications.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 34

  When the amendment procedure set forth in article V of the Constitution is carefully analyzed, it will appear that the States have the primary or major and final function in the amending process, and the role of Congress therein,…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 36

  EVOLVEMENT OF ARTICLE V IN FEDERAL CONVENTION

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 37

  The record of the evolution of article V, in the proceedings of the Federal convention of 1787, fully supports the view that Congress has no function at all to perform in that stage of the amending process…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 39

  …not give it power of final decision on these proposals, the language of this provision was then and there worked out in substantially the final form of what later became article V.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 42

  It is also interesting to note that the final change, in the provision which was about to become article V of the Constitution, was the insertion, on motion of Gouverneur Morris, of the prohibition against depriving any State of its equal suffrage in the Senate, without its consent.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 45

  This submission was by a two-thirds vote of the quorum present in each House of Congress, and in that sense it complied with article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 94

  The question arises-upon an analysis of the provisions of article V and upon a study of the history of the evolvement of this article in the Federal Convention of 1787-whether these coerced ratifications should be decreed null and void , as…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 95

  …, on his solemn representation that "the people would finally decide," would constitute a clear disregard of the plain intent of the Founding Fathers concerning the meaning and effect of article V.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 97

  The ready answer is that there ls no statute of limitations that will cure a gross violation of the amendment procedure laid down by article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 99

  …enforced ratifications of the 14th amendment by the Southern States in 1868, compelled by congressional duress offending against the Constitution itself, constitute an infraction of the amendment procedure ordained by article V of the Constitution, these enforced ratifications are just as violative of the provisions of article V in 1953 as they were in 1868.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 101

  Upon a demonstration now that article V of the Constitution was violated and flouted by the 1868 coerced ratifications of the 14th amendment, the true rule for this amendment process, ordained by article V, is entitled to…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 22, 1962 (5), ¶ 32

  "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution • • • which • • • 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."

  The paragraph quotes Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 26, 1962 (2), ¶ 93

  Hence article V was carried over into the new Constitution and became article I, section 2: The franchise for the election of the Members of the House of Representatives shall in every State…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962, ¶ 233

  both or either of which shall be valid to all intents · an.d purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of their submission by the Congress:

  The paragraph quotes words of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962, ¶ 198

  But in this matter we are proceeding in recognition of, instead of in depriving the rights of the States, in the way the Constitution has provided for amendment of the Constitution except in one or two matters which were not subject to amendment, but which in all other matters of public concern was subject to _ amendment .

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 88

  The Constitution provides, in article V, the method for its amendment.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 89

  ARTICLE V

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 91

  Only in article V does the Constitution provide for the method whereby the Constitution may be amended.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 92

  In article V we find the language to which the great interest of Congress should be devoted.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 94

  Yet the Senate is undertaking to add to article V of the Constitution, without any authority to do so, a third method of amending the Constitution, by saying that a proposed amendment to the Constitution can be appended to the…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 96

  This is the first time the Senate has undertaken to add a new provision to article V; to undertake to amend the Constitution in an entirely different fashion from that which is prescribed in the Constitution itself.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 98

  …the Senate a bill, bearing a Senate number or a House number, proposing an amendment to the several States to amend the Constitution, but not in the manner prescribed in article V.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 100

  …provide any number of legitimate ways, to bring before the Senate proposed amendments to the Constitution without violating the Constitution and · undertaking to set up a new provision of article V by procedural action on the floor of the Senate.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 106

  to undertake to alter article V of the - Con- · stitution, which prescribes the means by which the Constitution may be amended.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 112

  I note the following provision in article V-the only part of article V which is applicable to this procedure:

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 134

  …that if it were attached t.o a legislative proposal it would take only a majority vote to pass it, if the Senate · wanted to violate all its procedures and article V of the Constitution of the United States; but I would hope, if we were so remiss in our duties and so voted, that perhaps the Members of the other body…

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 138

  The rule laid down in article V of the Constitution does not go so far as to provide what vehicle shall be .

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 90

  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 Const i ­ tution, 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…

  The paragraph quotes Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 113

  The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution.

  The paragraph quotes words of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (2), ¶ 87

  I take the position that the Constitution itself prescribes the method by which it may be amended, and that the pending proposal does not appear in the Constitution as a means whereby a proposed constitutional amendment may _ be submitted to the several States.

  The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution for its amendment, which is Article V.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 27, 1962 (4), ¶ 5

  …are hereby proposed as amendments to the Constitution of the United states, both or either of which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as - part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of their submission by the Congress:

  The paragraph quotes words of Article V.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, July 6, 1965, ¶ 328

  President, I have uncovered three or four cases dealing with article V of the Constitution.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, July 6, 1965, ¶ 329

  As the Senate knows, article V deals with the means to amend the Constitution itself.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 10, 1971, ¶ 257

  Finally, there is the proposition that article V of the Constitution provides that no State's representation shall be diluted in the Senate of the United States.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 10, 1971, ¶ 258

  There has been no such interpretation of article V, nor could there be, because if we were to follow the rationale of that argument, we would still be 13 States scattered along the eastern seaboard.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 10, 1971 (2), ¶ 7

  But I believe that a different question is involved when we are discussing the mandate of the Constitution, in article V, that proposed constitutional amendments must secure a two-thirds vote in both Houses of the Congress.

  The paragraph cites Article V of the Constitution by number.

The Supreme Court

Cases whose essays in the Constitution Annotated cite them under this clause, oldest first. Each link names the pages it comes from.

• interpreted bySuggested
  Coleman v. Miller (1939)307 U.S. 433, decided June 5, 1939

  The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtV.4.2, ArtV.4.2.1, ArtV.4.2.2, ArtV.4.2.3, pp. 1258, 1259, 1260.

On Article V as a whole

• cited bySuggested
  New York convention, July 7, 1788, ¶ 1