does a amendment to the us constitution require a presidents' signature?
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I think it takes 3/4 of the states to ratify after the congress votes on it. I am not sure though.
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Constitutional amendments provide a very loose framework and spell out the nation's goals and intents.  Every constitutional amendment requires an act of legislation to spell out enforcement guidelines.
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Fascinating Facts about the U.S. Constitution\nThe U.S. Constitution has 4,440 words. It is the oldest and the shortest written constitution of any government in the world. \n\n\n\nOf the typographical errors in the Constitution, the misspelling of the word “Pensylvania” above the signers’ names is probably the most glaring. \n\n\n\nThomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution. He was in France during the Convention, where he served as the U.S. minister. John Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend either.\n\n\n\nThe Constitution was “penned” by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly clerk, for a fee of $30 ($280.72 today). It was stored in various cities until 1952, when it was placed in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. During the daytime, pages one and four of the document are displayed in a bullet-proof case. The case contains helium and water vapor to preserve the paper’s quality. At night, the pages are lowered into a vault, behind five-ton doors that are designed to withstand a nuclear explosion. The entire Constitution is displayed only one day a year—September 17, the anniversary of the day the framers signed the document. \n\n\n\nThe Constitution does not set forth requirements for the right to vote. As a result, at the outset of the Union, only male property-owners could vote. African Americans were not considered citizens, and women were excluded from the electoral process. Native Americans were not given the right to vote until 1924.\n\n\n\nJames Madison, “the father of the Constitution,” was the first to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. He arrived in February, three months before the convention began, bearing the blueprint for the new Constitution.\n\n\n\nOf the forty-two delegates who attended most of the meetings, thirty-nine actually signed the Constitution. Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts refused to sign due in part to the lack of a bill of rights.\n\n\n\nWhen it came time for the states to ratify the Constitution, the lack of any bill of rights was the primary sticking point.\n\n\n\nThe Great Compromise saved the Constitutional Convention, and, probably, the Union. Authored by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman, it called for proportional representation in the House, and one representative per state in the Senate (this was later changed to two.) The compromise passed 5-to-4, with one state, Massachusetts, “divided.”\n\n\n\nPatrick Henry was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but declined, because he “smelt a rat.”\n\n\n\nBecause of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.\n\n\n\nGouverneur Morris was largely responsible for the “wording” of the Constitution, although there was a Committee of Style formed in September 1787.\n\n\n\nThe oldest person to sign the Constitution was Benjamin Franklin (81). The youngest was Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey (26).\n\n\n\nWhen the Constitution was signed, the United States’ population was 4 million. It is now more than 300 million. Philadelphia was the nation’s largest city, with 40,000 inhabitants.\n\n\n\nA proclamation by President George Washington and a congressional resolution established the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789. The reason for the holiday was to give “thanks” for the new Constitution.\n\n\n\nThe first time the formal term “The United States of America” was used was in the Declaration of Independence.\n\n\n\nIt took one hundred days to actually “frame” the Constitution.\n\n\n\nThere was initially a question as to how to address the President. The Senate proposed that he be addressed as “His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of their Liberties.” Both the House of Representatives and the
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There are essentially two ways spelled out in the Constitution for how it can be amended. One has never been used.\n\nThe first method is for a bill to pass both halves of the legislature, by a two-thirds majority in each. Once the bill has passed both houses, it goes on to the states. This is the route taken by all current amendments. Because of some long outstanding amendments, such as the 27th, Congress will normally put a time limit (typically seven years) for the bill to be approved as an amendment (for example, see the 21st and 22nd).\n\nThe second method prescribed is for a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States, and for that Convention to propose one or more amendments. These amendments are then sent to the states to be approved by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions. This route has never been taken, and there is discussion in political science circles about just how such a convention would be convened, and what kind of changes it would bring about.\n\nRegardless of which of the two proposal routes is taken, the amendment must be approved by three-fourths of states. The amendment as passed may specify whether the bill must be passed by the state legislatures or by a state convention. See the Ratification Convention Page for a discussion of the make up of a convention. Amendments are sent to the legislatures of the states by default. Only one amendment, the 21st, specified a convention. In any case, passage by the legislature or convention is by simple majority.\n\nIt is interesting to note that at no point does the President have a role in the formal amendment process (though he would be free to make his opinion known). He cannot veto an amendment proposal, nor a ratification. This point is clear in Article 5, and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v Virginia (3 USC 378 [1798]):
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A written constitution is not as open to imterpretation by time and circumstance as an unwritten one. A favorite argument from the UK is that the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. is a relic of a time gone by, when in reality it remains the will of the majority of the American people today. When we want a change, we affect that change, like the 13th and 19th Amendments.
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So Fine is a moron.  Ignore her idiotic answer.\n\nHere is the right answer:\n\n1.  Congress writes the laws but cannot pass them nor determine their Constitutionality.\n\n2.  The President signs the laws but cannot write them nor determine their constitutionality.\n\n3.  The Supreme Court determines the laws constitutionality but cannot write them nor sign them\n\n\nEnd of story.
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The constitution specifically says, "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."\n\nThey clearly anticipated these amendments modifying the original document. In fact, many of the amendments have revised the original. Changing the election of Senators and Representatives to popular election, changing the way the number of representatives was calculated, changing the day Congress convenes, and allowing income tax are just a few of the major revisions to the original that have come about by the amendments.
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The 22 amendment to the Constitution, which limits the President to two terms, does not not mention restrictions at all on the V.P., so the answer is yes.
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In United States, It is pretty easy.\n\n1. Someone writes a bill.\n2. If the party that someone belongs to has the majority, the bill goes for voting.\n3. The majority approves the bill without even giving it a glance.\n4. If the president is with the same party, he would sign it and it becomes law, if not then he probably would veto.\n\nAnother way.\n1. Someone writes a 'paper-clip' bill.\n2. The paper-clip bill is attached to the bill with the biggest possibility of passing congress.\n3. Every approves the bill without even taking a glance at it.\n4. Pres. sign it and it becomes law.
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If you mean amendments to the constitution:\n\nThe Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
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Amendment XXII \n(Ratified in 1951.) \n\nSection 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. \n\nSection 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress
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Amendment II - Right to bear arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note\n\nA well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.\n\nAlso found this...\nU.S. Constitution, Amendment II \n(also known as the Second Amendment)\n\nA well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.\n\nOne Comma or Three?\n\nThe Final (ratified) version had only one comma according to the Library of Congress and Government Printing Office.
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No, it's not mandatory. No consequencies if you don't vote.
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the 23rd amendment\n1961, Presidential Electors
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You can write a letter to the President of the US.
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Zero. A constitutional amendment can be ratified with the approval of zero state legislatures. But we'll get back to that.\n\nOne way to ratify an amendment is with at least 3/4 of the state legislatures. 37 out of 50 is 0.74. That's not at least 0.75. So, 37 would be not enough. 38 or more would be enough.\n\nBut Article V also allows ratification by state constitutional conventions, which can be convened and authorized separately from the state legislature. So, even if no state legislatures approve, 38 state constitutional conventions would still be enough.
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Article two of the US Constitution establishes the power of the executive branch (mainly the President).\n\nIs that short enough?