The Confederacy Project; Article Seven: Methods Of Amendment

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THE
CONFEDERACY PROJECT CONSTITUTION
AND
DECLARATION OF SECESSION

THIRD CONSTITUTION
FOR THE
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

ARTICLE SEVEN: METHODS OF AMENDMENT
Section 7.1.
This Constitution shall be changed only by an explicit and authentic act of this Article. The sense in which it was accepted and ratified by the nation shall be the guide in expounding it, precedents to the contrary notwithstanding. Its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance nor extended beyond the natural and obvious meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the People at the time of its adoption. Any faults it may contain are to be corrected only by Articles of Amendment as prescribed in this Article, not by usurpation.
Section 7.2.
(1) The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, may propose Articles of Amendment to this Constitution and should any of the Articles of Amendment proposed by Congress be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States they shall henceforth form a part of this Constitution.
(2) Upon the demand of any one-fourth of the State Legislatures or the People thereof to consider Articles of Amendment to this Constitution and if the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States they shall henceforth form a part of this Constitution.
(3) Upon the demand of any two-thirds the State Legislatures or the People thereof the Congress shall summon a convention of all of the States to take into consideration a new constitution or to dissolve this Confederacy and should the proposed constitution or dissolution be agreed upon by the said convention and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States it shall be carried out.
Section 7.3.
(1) No rights or obligations, requirements or restrictions, not expressly stated in this Constitution shall be implied or inferred, it being the intent of this Article that any change or alteration to the express provisions of this Constitution shall be by Article of Amendment alone, and in accordance with the express provisions in this Article alone.
(2) A State may withdraw its ratification of a proposed Article of Amendment before it becomes part of this Constitution and shall instruct their Senators to declare the decision on the floor of the Senate and the same shall be entered into their journal.
(3) When a State ratifies, rejects, or changes its vote of a proposed Article of Amendment the State shall instruct their Senators to declare the decision on the floor of the Senate and the same shall be entered into their journal.
(4) No Article of Amendment shall take effect unless it has been ratified not later than ten years from the date of its submission to the States.
(5) The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of all Articles of Amendment.
(6) Articles of Amendment shall take effect no later than two years after the date of its ratification.
(7) Whenever official notice from the Senate is received at the National Archives and Records Administration that any proposed Article of Amendment to this Constitution has been adopted, according to the provisions of this Constitution, the Archivist of the Confederate States shall forthwith cause the Article of Amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of this Constitution.

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