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The amending process alone is enough to insure that the two-senators-per-state rule is forever safe.
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".
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.
(The president, by the way, has no say in the amending process).
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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.
The debate was complicated by the need to adopt an amending process acceptable to the federal government as well as to the 10 provinces.
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 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.
My most intense and comprehensive amends process happened when I went to an inpatient eating disorder facility.
In May this year, a ProPublica investigation into Cloudflare's abuse reporting system led the company to amend the process — saying it would provide anonymity to complainants in certain circumstances.
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