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The fifth article of the original Constitution of
the United States provides the mode in which amendments of the
Constitution may be made. Amendments must be proposed by
two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and ratified by the
Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States. Fifteen
amendments of the Constitution have been made at different times
since 1789, the most important of which are the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth, framed and ratified after the Civil
War. The original Constitution of the United States, followed by
these fifteen amendments, is printed at the end of this edition.
-Translator's Note, 1874.
Chapter VI: Judicial Power In The United States And Its Influence
On Political Society democracy in America | ||