Go out and get 35 of the 50 states to agree with the future amendment
Initiative
Initiative procedure.
The plan was to go directly to the voters to get them to approve of the Constitution. The Constitution would be presented to special ratifying conventions in each state, rather than to the existing state legislatures. Delegates to the conventions would be elected by popular vote for the soul purpose of debating and approving the Constitution. (Source- We the People by Susan M. Leeson.)
By the time the constitution was ratified and the first president was elected, George Washington was everyone's choice. He was elected unanimously by the electoral college like all presidents, following the process proscribed in the constitution. He did not have to campaign for the job.
The 15th amendment was ratified. This amendment gave equal voting rights to people regardless of race. And serious federal money was spent to stop the efforts of the KKK to intimidate black voters.
The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Ratified in 1870, it was the last of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution. However, between 1890 to 1910, southern legislatures blocked the Fifteenth Amendment by a series of obstacles including poll taxes, literacy tests and whites only primaries to disenfranchise black male voters.
Initiative procedure.
Missouri voters have the right to make a new law or add an amendment to the constitution by (who are what)
referendum
referendum
majority of the voters of the state in a popular election
process in which citizens may propose laws and then submit them directly to the voters
Amendment
Propose
Amendment twenty-three of the U.S. constitution says that Washington DC gets three electoral voters
Three-fifths of all the voters during a general election
Propose
In Illinois, the General Assembly has the authority to propose amendments to the state constitution. However, for an amendment to be adopted, it must be approved by a three-fifths majority vote in each chamber and then be approved by the majority of voters in a statewide referendum.