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documents:cosproject:surge:article_14-articlevconvention [2018/03/25 10:33] Oliver Wolcottdocuments:cosproject:surge:article_14-articlevconvention [2018/03/25 13:29] Oliver Wolcott
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 {{tag>surge articlev hamilton madison}} {{tag>surge articlev hamilton madison}}
 {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-14-1.png?800|}} {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-14-1.png?800|}}
-<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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-— Alexander Hamilton +
-</blockquote>+
 ===== An Article V Convention Is Not a Constitutional Convention ===== ===== An Article V Convention Is Not a Constitutional Convention =====
 **By Ken Quinn** **By Ken Quinn**
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 //“Every Constitution for the United States must inevitably consist of a great variety of particulars....// //“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....__// //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** ^^^ ^ **DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION** ^^^
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 {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-14-2.png?400| James Madison}} {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-14-2.png?400| James Madison}}
-<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.” 
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-— James Madison, Letter to Edward Everett, August 28, 1830 
-</blockquote> 
-//“__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.”// 
  
 +----
 **Text of Article V Unequivocally States “Convention for Proposing Amendments”**  **Text of Article V Unequivocally States “Convention for Proposing Amendments”** 
-Article V could not be any clearer in regards to the powers a convention is given. Here is the relevant portion of text: //“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 pro-posing Amendments....” //It is absolutely disingenuous to claim that an Article V convention can propose an entirely new Constitution. The words //“for proposing amendments”// could not be any clearer. Article V gives a convention the exact same authority as Congress: the power to propose amendments — nothing more, nothing less.+[[clips:article_v|Article V]] could not be any clearer in regards to the powers a convention is given. Here is the relevant portion of text: //“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 pro-posing Amendments....” //It is absolutely disingenuous to claim that an Article V convention can propose an entirely new Constitution. The words //“for proposing amendments”// could not be any clearer. Article V gives a convention the exact same authority as Congress: the power to propose amendments — nothing more, nothing less.
  
 **Text of Article V Does Not Allow For a New Constitution to Be Drafted** \\ **Text of Article V Does Not Allow For a New Constitution to Be Drafted** \\
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