Conventions within the states to ratify an amendment to U.S. Constitution

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	Conventions within the states to ratify an amendment to U.S. Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Also, such a ratifying convention is different from a constitutional convention as the second term has a very specific meaning: as a body assembled on a national basis for the clear purpose of writing an entirely new constitution for the country as a whole.
		In the history of the United States, this particular way of ratifying an officially proposed amendment was used only in the 1933 ratification process of the 21st Amendment.
		The U.S. Constitution, unlike of some of the states' constitutions, contains no specific provision for a national convention that would completely replace the existing constitution; however the convention called to propose amendments under Article V could theoretically propose an amendment which is an entirely new constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conventions_within_the_states_to_ratify_an_amendment_to_U.S._Constitution (377 words)

	Chicago-Kent Law Review
		Though the Antifederalists were the majority in that state, a substantial minority of them voted to ratify the Constitution because ten states had already done so.
		As they met with defeat in one state after another, the Antifederalists fell back to their secondary position of demanding amendments to alter the nature of the government.[7] Thus, in a number of the states, the defeated Antifederalists proposed amendments that they hoped would be added after ratification.
		The Antifederalists, especially the hard-core opponents of the Constitution led by Patrick Henry, did not want to modify the Constitution with a bill of rights so that it would be more palatable to the people; they wanted to totally undermine the Constitution or [Page 218] replace it with something else.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/FinkelmanChicago.htm (377 words)

	U.S. Bill of Rights Ratification
		The original Constitution as submitted to the states for ratification contains some protection for citizens against government tyranny, but not enough to suit the delegates to the state ratification conventions.
		Only a promise to include these rights enabled a sufficient number of states to ratify it.
		The Bill of Rights became effective with Virginia's ratification of December 15, 1791, because it constituted at least three-fourths of the 14 states.
	www.mikalac.com /cons/rightsratification.html (177 words)

	ULSF Constitution
		Any alteration or amendment to the foregoing constitution shall require a supporting vote of not less than two-thirds of the duly elected delegates present at the Ard Fheis.
		Rules governing conventions for the selection of candidates for election to Dáil Eireann can be obtained from Head Office.
		That the allegiance of Irishmen and Irishwomen is due to the sovereign Irish Republic proclaimed in 1916.
	www.csn.ul.ie /~sinnfein/con1.htm (177 words)

	Civil War/Reconstruction in History and Memory -- Lecture Summary
		We reviewed the major events of Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction, and Congressional Reconstruction, concluding with the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which ensured that delegates to newly convened state constitutional conventions would protect black voting rights and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
		Yet this Convention doth distinctly declare that the government of the States and the Union were formed by white men to be subject to their control; and that suffrage should still be so regulated by the States, as to continue the Federal and State systems under the control and direction of the white race.
		Virginia was readmitted to the Union under the provisions of Congressional Reconstruction in 1869; within a year, the white Conservative Party had regained control of the government.
	www.virginia.edu /woodson/courses/hius324/week2/civwar.html (177 words)

	Campaign Timeline
		On June 30, 1971 Ohio became the 38th state to ratify the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18.
		Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, was the keynote speaker at the Ohio Young Socialist Conference, held at Hatch Auditorium.
		Eugene McCarthy's Children's Crusade was dominated by college students who cut their hair and shaved their beards to campaign in New Hampshire's primary with the slogan, Get Clean for Gene.
	www.case.edu /its/archives/campaign/timeline.htm (1752 words)

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