...experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite, therefore, thata^node for introducing them should be provided. The mode preferred by the convention,...It moreover equally, enables the general, and the slate governments, to originate the amendment of errors, as they may be pointed out by the experience...

...requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing amendments should be provided ; and that which was adopted guards equally against that extreme facility which would render the Constitution too mutable, and the extreme difficulty which might perpetuate its faults. The article in question provides that " Congress,...

...requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing amendments should be provided ; and that which was adopted guards equally against that extreme facility which would render the Constitution too mutable, and the extreme difficulty which might perpetuate its faults. The article in question provides that " Congress,...

...experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing them should be provided. The mode preferred by the convention...faults. It moreover equally enables the general and th« state governments to originate the amendment of errors, as they may be pointed out by the experience...

...Washington, Hamilton, and others. The contemporary " Federalist " commended it on the ground that it "guarded equally against that extreme facility which would...difficulty which might perpetuate its discovered faults." The learned Judge Story in 1851 pointed with pride to the provision as "a bar against light or frequent...

...account of sex. Madison believed that the modes of amendment agreed upon CHAP. by the framers guarded "equally against that extreme facility — which would...render the constitution too mutable and that extreme Criticism difficulty which might perpetuate discovered faults. " l On the unending whole, history has...

...light or frequent innovations. They sought to make changes practicable, but not too easy; to guard equally against that extreme facility which would...difficulty which might perpetuate its discovered faults. 9 2 Story, Const. 5th ed. § 1827; The Federalist, No. 43. This court is bound by, and cannot go behind,...

...as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress." As Madison well said: "The mode preferred by the Convention seems to be...Constitution too mutable, and that extreme difficulty which miorVif nprnpfuntp itc rtierrvvprprl faiilfc 1> mnrprvirw equally enables the general and the state...

...what Madison wrote of the amendment provision in the Constitution of the United States (article 5) : "It guards equally against that extreme facility which...difficulty which might perpetuate its discovered faults." The Federalist, No. XLIII. See volume 1, Bourne Ed. 1914, p. 302; Ford Ed. 1898, p. 291. The purpose...

...on account of sex.1 Madison believed that the modes of amendment agreed upon by the framers guarded "equally against that extreme facility which would...and that extreme difficulty which might perpetuate discovered faults. ' ' 2 On the whole, history has borne out this opinion. There has, nevertheless,...