Ratification of Constitutional Amendments by Popular Vote: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S.J. Res. 134...January 18, 26, and February 9, 19381938 - 85 страници |
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Страница 20 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Страница 77 - That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing them should be provided. The mode preferred by the convention seems to be stamped with every mark of propriety. It guards equally against that extreme facility, which would render the constitution too mutable ; and that extreme difficulty, which might perpetuate its discovered faults. It moreover equally enables the general and the state governments to originate...
Страница 18 - Article II specifies that each State shall appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.
Страница 11 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading :...
Страница 19 - Madison did not see why Congress would not be as much bound to propose amendments applied for by two thirds of the States as to call a Convention on the like application. He saw no objection however against providing for a Convention for the purpose of amendments, except only that difficulties might arise as to the form, the quorum &c. which in Constitutional regulations ought to be as much as possible avoided.
Страница 64 - The committee will stand in recess until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, a recess was taken until 2 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The subcommittee reconvened at 2 pm, pursuant to recess, Hon.
Страница 73 - ... Senate. He thought it reasonable that the proviso in favor of the States importing slaves should be extended so as to provide that no State should be affected in its internal police, or deprived of its equality in the Senate. Col: MASON thought the plan of amending the Constitution exceptionable & dangerous. As...
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Страница 74 - Mr. Chairman. I thank you very much for the privilege of appearing before you. Mr.