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--- documents:cosproject:surge:article_14-articlevconvention [2018/03/25 10:33] – Oliver Wolcott
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-<blockquote>“There can, therefore, be no comparison between the facility of affecting an amendment, and that of establishing in the first instance a complete Constitution.”
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+//“There can, therefore, be no comparison between the facility of affecting an amendment, and that of establishing in the first instance a complete Constitution.”//
 — Alexander Hamilton
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 ===== An Article V Convention Is Not a Constitutional Convention =====
 **By Ken Quinn**
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 //“Every Constitution for the United States must inevitably consist of a great variety of particulars....//
 //Hence the necessity of moulding and arranging all the particulars which are to compose the whole, in such a manner as to __satisfy all the parties to the compact__; and hence, also, an immense multiplication of difficulties and casualties in __obtaining the collective assent to a final act....__//
+//“__But every amendment__ to the Constitution, if once established, __would be a single proposition, and might be brought forward singly__.... The will of the// //requisite number would at once bring the matter to a decisive issue. And consequently, whenever nine ( <sup>2</sup>⁄3), or rather ten States ( <sup>3</sup>⁄4), were united in the desire of a particular amendment, that amendment must infallibly prevail. There can, therefore, be no comparison between the facility of affecting an amendment, and that of establishing in the first instance a complete Constitution.”//
 ^ **DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION** ^^^
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-<blockquote>“Should the provisions of the Constitution as here reviewed be found not to secure the Govt. & rights of the States agst. usurpations & abuses on the part of the U. S. the final resort within the purview of the Constn. lies in an amendment of the Constn. according to a process applicable by the States.”
-— James Madison, Letter to Edward Everett, August 28, 1830
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-</blockquote>
+//“Should the provisions of the Constitution as here reviewed be found not to secure the Govt. & rights of the States agst. usurpations & abuses on the part of the U. S. the final resort within the purview of the Constn. lies in an amendment of the Constn. according to a process applicable by the States.”
-//“__But every amendment__ to the Constitution, if once established, __would be a single proposition, and might be brought forward singly__.... The will of the// //requisite number would at once bring the matter to a decisive issue. And consequently, whenever nine ( <sup>2</sup>⁄3), or rather ten States ( <sup>3</sup>⁄4), were united in the desire of a particular amendment, that amendment must infallibly prevail. There can, therefore, be no comparison between the facility of affecting an amendment, and that of establishing in the first instance a complete Constitution.”//
+— James Madison, Letter to Edward Everett, August 28, 1830//
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 **Text of Article V Unequivocally States “Convention for Proposing Amendments”**