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...following article "About Amending the Constitution," by Hon. David A. De Armond, member of Congress from Missouri, is the second of a series written for the Intercollegiate Civic League by prominent politicians and men of affairs. These articles, which are nonpartisan in character, are aimed to encourage an active interest in politics among college...
...prerequisite to any amendment must be the opportunity to amend. There are two methods and only two for amending; the one through the initiative of the Congress; which may from time to time, with the concurrence of two-thirds of each House, propose amendments; the other, through the initiative of two-thirds of the States, upon the call of whose legislatures the Congress shall provide for a Convention to propose amendments. However proposed, no amendment can become a part of the Constitution unless ratified by three-fourths of the States, by action of Legislature or Convention in each, respectively...
...convention to propose amendments to the Constitution has ever assembled; all amendments heretofore ratified originated in the Congress. Most of them are almost as old as the Constitution itself, and were considered when the Constitution was under consideration for ratification or rejection, and were informally endorsed when it was ratified. One other amendment came as a result of the Jefferson-Burr contest for the Presidency. Three amendments--the only ones made in the last hundred years--are the Constitutional product...
...Congress will not propose any amendment of importance--a glance at history and even a hurried view of present conditions surely must banish every doubt about that. It is a generation since the Congress proposed any amendment, and yet there has been ceaseless agitation for amendment...
...AWARD OF ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS IN HARVARD COLLEGE. Address by Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Member of Congress from Massachusetts. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Seats reserved for invited guests till...