Question

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State the process required in order for the constitution to be the official “law of the land.”

Answer 1

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.[1] The Constitution originally consisted of seven Articles. The first three Articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislature, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The fourth and sixth Articles frame the doctrine of federalism, describing the relationship between State and State, and between the several States and the federal government. The fifth Article provides the procedure for amending the Constitution. The seventh Article provides the procedure for ratifying the Constitution.

The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven States. It went into effect on March 4, 1789.[2]

Since the Constitution was adopted, it has been amended twenty-seven times. The first ten amendments (along with two others that were not ratified at the time) were proposed by Congress on September 25, 1789, and were ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the States on December 15, 1791.[3] These first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights.

The Constitution is interpreted, supplemented, and implemented by a large body of constitutional law. The Constitution of the United States was the first constitution of its kind, and has influenced the constitutions of other nations. Research has shown that this influence may be on the wane, however.[4][5]

Answer 2

The ways a state constitution can be amended or revised are:
Via a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment.
Via an initiated constitutional amendment. Eighteen states allow this method of amendment although the requirements in several of these states are so prohibitively difficult that the process has rarely if ever been used (Illinois, Mississippi).
Via a commission-referred amendment process, which takes place only in Florida.
Via a constitutional convention. In some states, automatic ballot referrals allow voters to decide at regular intervals whether to hold a convention.
Through direct action of the state legislature with no vote of the people. (This happens only in Delaware).
State constitutions can also be changed through judicial action. This can happen when a federal court declares that part of a state's constitution is unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution and must be removed or treated as null. It can also happen when a state court declares that an amendment to the state's constitution is unacceptable.

Answer 3

The authority to amend the Constitution of the United States is derived from Article V of the Constitution. After Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. 106b. The Archivist has delegated many of the ministerial duties associated with this function to the Director of the Federal Register. Neither Article V of the Constitution nor section 106b describe the ratification process in detail. The Archivist and the Director of the Federal Register follow procedures and customs established by the Secretary of State, who performed these duties until 1950, and the Administrator of General Services, who served in this capacity until NARA assumed responsibility as an independent agency in 1985.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

The ways a state constitution can be amended or revised are:
Via a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment.
Via an initiated constitutional amendment. Eighteen states allow this method of amendment although the requirements in several of these states are so prohibitively difficult that the process has rarely if ever been used (Illinois, Mississippi).
Via a commission-referred amendment process, which takes place only in Florida.
Via a constitutional convention. In some states, automatic ballot referrals allow voters to decide at regular intervals whether to hold a convention.
Through direct action of the state legislature with no vote of the people. (This happens only in Delaware).
State constitutions can also be changed through judicial action. This can happen when a federal court declares that part of a state's constitution is unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution and must be removed or treated as null. It can also happen when a state court declares that an amendment to the state's constitution is unacceptable.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

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Answer 11

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Answer 12

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