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Identify and explain how the constitution may be informally amended. The US constitution is a written, codified document and has survived for over 200 years. This has been possible because it has changed and adapted to take into account developments in US society. The 'Founding Fathers' laid down two formal procedures for proposing amendments to the constitution. The first requires Congress to call a national convention at the request of two-thirds of the states -along the same lines as the original convention in Philadelphia. This procedure has never been used. The second method requires a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. Once proposed an amendment needs to be ratified by three-quarters of the states. This can be done either through a vote in the state legislatures, or by special state ratifying conventions. The latter has only been used once, for the 21st amendment in 1933. Although over 10,000 amendments have...

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