Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered. Altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed by either two-thirds of both houses of the United States Congress or by a national convention. This convention can be assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states. To become part of the Constitution, amendments must then be ratified either by approval of the legislatures of three-fourths of the states or ratifying conventions held in three-fourths of the states. Congress has discretion as to which method of ratification should be used. There is one exception to the three-fourths requirement, specified in the last clause of Article V: "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." This clause seems to empower specific states to veto their prospective reduction of representation in the Senate, even over the ratification of 49 other states.
Article 5 of the US Constitution establishes the procedure by which the Constitution may be amended.
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The fifth article of the constitution addresses the issue of ammendments using the mnemonic LEJStASR article 1. Legislative branch article 2. Executive branch article 3. Judicial branch article 4. States' rights article 5. Ammendments article 6. Supreme law article 7. Ratification
Article V. In other words, Article 5.
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The five documents are : The Declaration Of Independence The Article Of Confederation The US Constitution The Bill of Rights and the
Article 5: Amending the Constitution Two Thirds of both houses
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the addition of amendments to the constitution by congress
How Congress adds amendments to the Constitution.
The US Constitution, Article 2, section 1, clause 5 gives the qualifications for president.