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To: Jacquerie
Article V doesn’t mean a constitutional convention.

That is precisely what is being spoken about in this article.

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, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

18 posted on 07/24/2013 2:39:09 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan
shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments,

A convention to propose amendments is not an open ended constitutional convention.

20 posted on 07/24/2013 2:46:32 PM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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