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| ====== Article 14 - Article V Convention ====== | ====== Article 14 - An Article V Convention is not a Constitutional Convention ====== |
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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.” | <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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| Last but not least is the fact that Article V does not allow for a new Constitution to be drafted, because the text states: //“Congress ... 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....” //When ratified, the amendments proposed by a convention become part of our current Constitution. A convention can-not, under the plain text of Article V, set up a new constitution. | Last but not least is the fact that Article V does not allow for a new Constitution to be drafted, because the text states: //“Congress ... 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....” //When ratified, the amendments proposed by a convention become part of our current Constitution. A convention can-not, under the plain text of Article V, set up a new constitution. |
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