Power to Propose Amendments to the Constitution

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1. What fraction of all its Members does Article XVII, Section 1, specify for Congress to propose an amendment or revision?
2. Under Article XVII, Section 3, what vote is specified for Congress directly to call a constitutional convention?
3. When members of Congress exercise the Constitution's power to propose constitutional changes, what character of power i…
4. Congress has the constitutionally required majority of all its Members for submitting a question to the electorate, but…
5. Congress properly approves a proposed constitutional amendment. An official announces that congressional approval alone…
6. Congressional proponents expressly seek to amend the Constitution. Their proposal receives only sixty percent of all th…
7. Congress properly proposes a constitutional change and schedules ratification for the twentieth day after approval. Pro…
8. Distinguish Congress's ordinary legislative authority from its constituent function of proposing constitutional amendme…
9. Describe the two routes by which Congress may act concerning the calling of a constitutional convention under Article X…
10. Congress validly proposes an amendment but declares that no plebiscite is needed because legislators themselves were el…
11. For a constitutional change properly proposed by Congress under Article XVII, Section 1, what is the latest plebiscite …
12. What ratification vote does Article XVII, Section 4 prescribe for a congressional proposal?