Article 5: Amending the Constitution

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Article 5 Amending the Constitution

• The Constitution can be amended or formally
  changed

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Lets Make Amends

• A Two-Thirds vote is needed in BOTH houses to
  propose to Amend the constitution and
  three-fourths are needed to ratify it OR
• When a constitutional convention is called by
  Two-Thirds the states and approved by
  Three-Fourths of the states
• No state can be denied suffrage in any
  constitutional convention

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Article 6 Supremacy of the National Government

• The Constitution, national laws, and treaties are
  the supreme and highest laws of the land. All
  governments must promise to support the
  constitution.

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It doesnt get ANY better than this

• All Debts that existed before the constitution
  was written were carried over to the new
  Government
• Everyone in the United States has to follow the
  laws of the constitution, and no state can create
  a law that goes against the United States
• All Government officials are bound to the laws of
  the constitution and MUST carry the laws out
• No Religious Test can be given to determine who
  gets a position in a public office

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Article 7 Ratification

• Nine of the Thirteen states had to Ratify, or
  approve, the constitution before it could go into
  effect

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We The People

• Only 9 of the 13 states in the union were needed
  to ratify the constitution though all 13 ratified
  it on September 17th, 1787
• Names of Interest that signed the Constitution
• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• Ben Franklin
• Robert Morris
• James Madison Jr.

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