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The time limit to ratify an amendment is seven years. The first time this was imposed was on the 18th Amendment. Congress uses the time limit to avoid amendments lingering indefinitely before the States.
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experimental scientist
The elastic clause is the clause that Congress uses to get more power.
The elastic clause is the clause that Congress uses to get more power.
That depends on the legislation of the country or organisation.Most have provision for revision. The US Constitution uses Amendments for revising and updating their Constitution.Added: There is no timeline stipulation for an Amendment to the US Constitution. Once the proposed amendment is ratified by the required number of states it automatically beomes a Constitutional Amendment. The trick and the time consuming part of the process is achieving the necessary number of states to actually ratify it.
The Senate
The elastic clause is the clause that Congress uses to get more power.
The Twenty-sixth Amendment was passed in response to the US Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 US 112 (1970), where the court declared a section of the 1970 amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional.The Twenty-sixth Amendment simply lowers the voting age from 21 to 18 by constitutional means because the Court held the federal government couldn't dictate voting regulations to states by legislation. The Amendment was ratified by the states on July 5, 1971, and has not been challenged.This is a regulatory Amendment that isn't amenable to special uses or limitations, except those that apply to voter eligibility, in general.Amendment XXVISection 1.The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.Section 2.The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
That would be the U.S. Senate.
Federal power has increased when Congress uses a broad definition of the power to regulate commerce.