This book describes the process of amending the federal constitution as defined in Article V by means of a convention for proposing amendments. It shows that th

The Philadelphia Convention of 1787 provided two methods of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In the first, Congress, by two-thirds vote in both ho

Vile surveys more than two centuries of scholarship on Article V and concludes that the weight of the evidence indicates that states and Congress have the legal