Conventional Wisdom: The Alternate Article V Mechanism for Proposing Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

by John Vile and John R. Vile

Book Overview

Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them. Scholars and frustrated advocates of constitutional change have often criticized this process for being too difficult. Despite this, state legislatures have yet to use the other primary method that Article V outlines for proposing amendments: it permits two-thirds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820357855
• ISBN13: 9780820357850
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"