CONSTITUTION DRAFTING PROJECT

[lpetrich]

V: Future amendments
Changing the amendment process itself.

Amendments may be proposed by any of:

• Congress, with 3/5 of both houses
• States, with 1/2 of them
• States, with 2/3 of the population

They may then be ratified by any of:

• States, with 2/3 of them
• States, with 3/4 of the population

A Constitutional Convention may be proposed by any of:

• States, with 2/3 of them
• States, with 3/4 of the population

It may propose amendments but not ratify them.

It thus has the progressive side's proposal of fraction of population as an alternative to fraction of states.

No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, absent an amendment to the Constitution proposed by three fourths of both Houses and ratified by three fourths of the several States in accordance with the constitutional processes of each State.

Thus allowing the Senate to become at least semi-proportional if enough Congresspeople and states agree.

While an amendment, having been proposed, is pending ratification in the States, a State may revoke its previous ratification at any time before the requisite number of States has ratified the amendment.

Thus clarifying that issue, which arose during the attempted ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

 

[steve_bank]

It is ridiculous to think 'scholars' are going to craft a perfect COTUS.

Us humans do not fit neatly into a fixed set of rules. There is always grey areas.

If you want a perfect system get perfect people.

COTUS as it was crafted gives a process for constitutional change. They are called amendments.

A fundamental structural cnange to COTUS would never get approved by the states.