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To: OneWingedShark

So once a convention is called under article 5, based on your chart, amendments could then be proposed by a 2/3 votes of a national convention called by CONGRESS. So if congress is calling it, do they get to pick who makes up this convention?

Then, if approved, according to your chart, 3/4 of something called “ratifying conventions” get to approve or dissaprove of the amendment. Who gets to pick who makes up these conventions?


190 posted on 02/16/2015 3:20:08 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: icwhatudo

Post #18, please.


191 posted on 02/16/2015 3:20:50 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: icwhatudo
So once a convention is called under article 5, based on your chart, amendments could then be proposed by a 2/3 votes of a national convention called by CONGRESS. So if congress is calling it, do they get to pick who makes up this convention?

No; all the Congress does is set a place and time for the convention.

Then, if approved, according to your chart, 3/4 of something called “ratifying conventions” get to approve or dissaprove of the amendment. Who gets to pick who makes up these conventions?

The States, IIRC — just look at how the 21st was repealed to see that ratification method.

193 posted on 02/16/2015 3:30:31 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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