The amending process alone is enough to insure that the two-senators-per-state rule is forever safe.
On December 2 , 1981 an amending process and a bill of rights (Charter of Rights and Freedoms) were accepted by all the provinces except Quebec.
The debate was complicated by the need to adopt an amending process acceptable to the federal government as well as to the 10 provinces.
The point has often been made that in a truly federal system the constituent polities must have substantial influence over the formal or informal constitutional-amending process.
An obscure provision of Article V of the Constitution, which outlines the amending process, provides that "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate".
Florida's legislature was the first, passing by acclamation (no specific vote count) a "House Memorial" calling on Congress to start the constitutional amending process.
Black wrote: "The Constitution is not deathless; it provides for changing or repealing by the amending process, not by judges but by the people and their chosen representatives".
For when, in the name of constitutional interpretation, the Court adds something to the Constitution that was deliberately excluded from it, the Court, in reality, substitutes its view of what should be so for the amending process.
Mr. Klein has been speaking with the United Federation of Teachers, the city's union, about amending the process.
He acknowledged, however, that he had contacted the rules committee before a meeting next week to discourage amending the process.
