When We Amend the Constitution, Make Sure We Follow the U.S. Procedure, not the “Confederate States” Procedure0

• Article V, CONSTITUTION
• September 19, 2016

People who claim that states may, through state law, dictate the wording of amendments to the interstate “convention for proposing amendments” are not accurately representing the system laid out in Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Rather, they are unwittingly advocating a system similar to the one adopted by the defunct “Confederate States of America.”