[1] It is true that each state legislature can delegate this power to a state ratifying convention. Unless and until it does so, however, the power belongs solely to the state legislature.
[2] Madison alluded, in Federalist 49, to the fact that, "whenever it was "necessary to enlarge, diminish or new --model the powers of government," this task should recur to the people.
[3] See my previous article titled "How our state legislatures might help prevent tragedies," p. 2 for a "point of departure" draft amendment.
[4] Madison, Notes of Debates, W. W. Norton, 1987, p. 649
[5] Ibid
[6] It is worth noting here that Article VII of our present Constitution specifies that the Constitution being proposed be ratified by state ratifying conventions.
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