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To: Hostage
You need the legislatures of two-thirds of the states to petition Congress for an Amendments Convention, and the petitioning language must be identical so that the petitions may be tabulated by the Archivist of the United States in the correct column.

Because Nebraska is unicameral, there are 99 state legislative bodies in the calculation, not 100. You would need 68 (or 67 if Nebraska is in the calculation) legislative bodies that constitutionists -- not Republicans! -- need to control to get the correctly worded Article V petitions into the Archivist's hands.

4 posted on 10/19/2014 10:47:07 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

Thank you, excellent information. The article here does however mention there are 98 not 99 state chambers. Nebraska and its unicameral legislature bring the total to 99. Perhaps the writer is in error.


5 posted on 10/19/2014 10:56:53 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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