Initiative procedure.
Go out and get 35 of the 50 states to agree with the future amendment
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.
No. It once did, from 1870-1902, but not at the present time. No. It once did, from 1870-1902, but not at the present time.
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.
This might help:in 2008 there were 12,752,417 registered voters in Texas.
Initiative - procedure whereby a certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters. Referendum - Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution. Recall - Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Initiative allows citizens to propose new laws or changes to existing laws through a petition process. Referendum allows citizens to vote directly on a proposed law passed by the legislature. Recall allows citizens to remove an elected official from office before their term is up through a special election.
The voters by State Constitutional amendment in 1900.
Go out and get 35 of the 50 states to agree with the future amendment
Propose
Petition their state legislator to introduce a law which covers their particulat area of interest.
Propose
In some states, an automatic ballot referrals allows voters to decide at regular intervals whether to hold a convention.
I think you made a spelling error. If you mean initiative, it is a procedure enabling citizens to propose a bill by petitioning with a specific number of signatures from registered voters.
initiative
In the US? Besides the Constitutional Bill of Rights and the voters themselves? There is no single religious sect in the US which could swing anything near the votes needed for such a constitutional amendment.
The answer is Initiative