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documents:cosproject:surge:article_14-articlevconvention [2018/03/23 22:14] – Oliver Wolcottdocuments:cosproject:surge:article_14-articlevconvention [2018/03/25 10:26] – Oliver Wolcott
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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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 //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....__//
  
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 //“__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.”// //“__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.”//
  
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