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Informal Amendments

Informal Amendments. What fraction vote is needed to propose an amendment?. 1/4 1/3 2/3 3/4. What article of the Constitution structures the amendment process?. 5 0.1. What is it??. Changes to the Constitution that don’t involve change in the written word. The Five Informalities:.

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Informal Amendments

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  1. Informal Amendments

  2. What fraction vote is needed to propose an amendment? • 1/4 • 1/3 • 2/3 • 3/4

  3. What article of the Constitution structures the amendment process? • 5 • 0.1

  4. What is it?? • Changes to the Constitution that don’t involve change in the written word.

  5. The Five Informalities: • 1. Basic Legislation • 2. Executive Action • 3. Court Decisions • 4. Party Practices • 5. Custom

  6. Basic Legislation • Congress has given “meat to the bones” of the Constitution. • Further defined judiciary • Set up executive branch • Defines loose terminology

  7. Executive Action • President’s actions not defined in Constitution: • Executive Agreements: with foreign heads of state. • Senate approval not needed.

  8. Court Decisions • Supreme Court, with legitimacy from Marbury vs. Madison, interpret laws and actions of the people.

  9. Party Practices • Hold national conventions- which nominate candidates. • Influence cabinet appointments.

  10. Customs • Idea of a cabinet is a custom. • Vice President taking over for dead president was a custom until 1967. • No third term presidency- until 22nd amendment in 1951.

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