Please read up on Article V more clearly.
If you think Kentucky is unicameral and Nebraska is not, then you need to seriously brush up on your facts, figures, and critical thinking.
Yea, I should have looked it up. Just off the bullseye.
Give me the URL for the official Article V page?
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.
It is my understanding that the provision is included for a Convention of States but has not actually ever been conducted. Amendments have been enacted via the Congressional Route.
I've read where about 400 Calls to Convention (applications) have been made but none had the same topic where the 34 necessary applications agreed. That by itself could be deemed a regulating process I guess, but it doesn't seem to me that the original scope would have to be tightly controlled once the states convene. There is no precedent to go on here.
To my mind a process which has never actually been exercised is an unknown.
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.
It is my understanding that the provision is included for a Convention of States but has not actually ever been conducted. Amendments have been enacted via the Congressional Route.
I've read where about 400 Calls to Convention (applications) have been made but none had the same topic where the 34 necessary applications agreed. That by itself could be deemed a regulating process I guess, but it doesn't seem to me that the original scope would have to be tightly controlled once the states convene. There is no precedent to go on here.
To my mind a process which has never actually been exercised is an unknown.