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Article IVStates, Citizenship, New States New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
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- Thirty-two (32) other states have already called for a Con Con (allegedly to add a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution). 34 states are all that is required, and then Congress MUST convene a Convention. The U.S. Constitution places no restriction on the purposes for which the states can call for a Convention. If Ohio votes to call a Con Con, for whatever purpose, the United States will be only one state away from total destruction.
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HISTORY His promise reassured the convention and the Constitution was approved in that state by the narrowest margin. New York soon followed, but submitted proposed amendments. Two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, refused to ratify without a bill of rights.
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State Constitutions vs. The United States Constitution State constitutions are more open to amendments. Amendments can be proposed by legislature, a constitutional commission or citizens’ petition and can be accepted by referendum. For example. the constitution of Massachusetts has been amended one hundred and twenty times.
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Delaware Ratifies the US Constitution and is the First State Admitted to the Union During the ratification debate in Virginia, Madison promised that a bill of rights would be added after ratification. His promise reassured the convention and the Constitution was approved in that state by the narrowest margin. New York soon followed, but submitted proposed amendments.
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- On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify the new United States Constitution. Although the first African slave was brought to the area as early as 1645, New Hampshire was against slavery in the first half of the 19th century and sent about 34,000 soldiers to fight for the Union during the Civil War.
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States Admitted To The Union timeline Georgia Ratifies the US Constitution and is the 4th State Admitted to the Union. Wednesday, January the second, one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight: To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.
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Amending state constitutions Only legislatively referred constitutional amendments can be used to amend the constitution, and this procedure is more restrictive in Indiana than in most states, since any proposed amendment must be approved in two successive sessions of the Indiana General Assembly before it can go to a vote of the people.
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- That each of the States of (naming them) shall be entitled and admitted to. representation in Congress as a State of the Union. when the legislature of such State. shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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- No matter who proposes the amendments, the requirement of 38 states for ratification is a guarantee that only amendments supported by the vast majority of the American people can become part of our Constitution. The Scope of an Article V Convention Can Be Limited.
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Delaware Ratifies the US Constitution and is the First State Admitted to the Union We the Deputies of the People of the Delaware State , in Convention met , having taken into our serious consideration the Federal Constitution proposed and agreed upon by the Deputies of the United States in a General Convention held at the City of Philadelphia on the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred ...
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Ratification of Constitutional Amendments Ratification of Constitutional Amendments. Article 5 of the Constitution provides for the amendment of the Constitution by various means (see The Amendments Page for details). However an amendment is proposed, it does not become part of the Constitution unless it is ratified by three-quarters of the states (either the legislatures thereof, or in amendment conventions). The following is a record of each ratified amendment and the states and dates that led to the ratification.
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The First State The First State. In Dover, Delaware, the U.S. Constitution is unanimously ratified by all 30 delegates to the Delaware Constitutional Convention, making Delaware the first state of the modern United States. Less than four months before, the Constitution was signed by 37 of the original 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia.
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New Hampshire's Ratification New Hampshire's Ratification Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New Hampshire, June 21, 1788. New Hampshire was the ninth state to do so, and with its ratification, the Constitution was officially in effect. New Hampshire's ratification message included several suggested changes to the Constitution, including one which would said Congress shall never disarm any citizen, unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
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Amending state constitutions This can happen when a federal court declares that part of a state's constitution is unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution and must be removed or treated as null. It can also happen when a state court declares that an amendment to the state's constitution is unacceptable.
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- All of them eventual … ly did, making moot the point of whether the constitution was itself unconstitutional, since it was in effect, an amendment of the Articles, which required unanimous consent for that. The constitution said it would take effect once 9 state signed up. Rhode Island was the last hold out of the original 13. By the time it ratified, George Washington had been President for more than a year. Vermont, which had not yet come into existence when the Constitution was drafted, sign on soon thereafter.
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- Introduce a bill in the state legislature to call a constitutional convention. Article V of the United States Constitution also allows for amendments to be proposed by constitutional convention. A constitutional convention is a meeting of the states to collectively decide whether to amend the constitution. This convention is also known as the “Article V Convention” or the “Amendment Convention.” Each state must approve to submit an application that calls a constitutional convention.
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Admission of States to Union Other early states like Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maine were taken out of land originally considered to be part of one of the original thirteen. Following the Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana was proposed for admission as a state.dmission of States to Union. The state-making process in the United States is regulated by Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. It allows for the admission of new states by an act of Congress.
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States Admitted To The Union timeline North Carolina Ratifies the US Constitution and is the 12th State Admitted to the Union. Resolved, That a Declaration of Rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great Principles of civil and religious Liberty, and the...
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Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention Of these, 27 have been ratified and added to the Constitution. The other way of amending the Constitution has never been successfully used. Under this procedure, the states initiate the amending process by petitioning Congress for a constitutional convention. When two-thirds of the states have submitted petitions, Congress must call a convention.
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Why the Framers Could Suggest Ratification by Only Nine States Without one or the other—and probably without both—the Constitution could not be implemented. And if nine states ratified but New York did not (New York’s Governor opposed ratification), the New York City region might well secede from the state and join anyway. So the Framers had good reason to believe that if the Constitution did come into effect, this would occur by the will of a majority of America’s “one people.”
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34 States Call for Constitutional Convention â and Possible Rewrite Under Article 5 of the Constitution, such a convention can be convened when requested by two-thirds of the states, and it is one of two ways to propose amendments to the nation's founding document.
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United States Constitution The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first constitution of the United States. It was drafted by the Second Continental Congress from mid-1776 through late-1777, and ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. proposed amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (currently 38 of the 50 States). There is no further step. The text requires no additional action by Congress or anyone else after ratification by the final state.
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United States Constitution Article Five gives two ways to amend, or change, the Constitution. 1  Congress can write a change, if two-thirds of the members in each House agree. 2  The state governments can call a convention to write changes, although this has not happened since 1787.
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Admission to the Union The Constitution went into effect on June 21, 1788, after ratification by 9 of the 13 states, and the federal government began operations under it on March 4, 1789. Since then, 37 additional states have been admitted into the Union. Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with those already in existence.
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Title IX According to the Supreme Court, yes...in theory. There is no clause in the Constitution that specifically allows for secession, but it stands to reason that if states can be voluntarily admitted into the union there must be a way for them to voluntarily leave.