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A runaway constitutional convention can propose all kinds of amendments but they each must still be ratified by three fourths of the states.
by Mountain_Skies 5y ago
A runaway constitutional convention can propose all kinds of amendments but they each must still be ratified by three fourths of the states.
- CalChris 5y agoThe first constitutional convention was ratified by 9 out the 13 colonies, 2/3s. Rhode Island rejected it by referendum but ratified it by convention in 1790. It's a complex story. I remember reading that Washington avoided Rhode Island while it hadn't ratified. That was for the Constitution, not the Bill of Rights which came later and were ratified by Congress + the State legislatures. https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/the-day-the-constitution-was-ratified https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog...
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The first constitutional convention was ratified by 9 out the 13 colonies, 2/3s. That's because the ratification of the Constitution wasn't governed by the rules for amendments, whether introduced by Congress or Convention, under the Constitution.
- q1w2 5y agoNever underestimate the power of large groups of people to do irrational things in a state of mania, and to pressure/harass the rest of the population into silence.