Constitution of the United States: Article V
Constitution: how amended; proviso.
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 1808, 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.
United States Constitution
- Constitution of the United States: Preamble
- Constitution of the United States: Article I
- Constitution of the United States: Article II
- Constitution of the United States: Article III
- Constitution of the United States: Article IV
- Constitution of the United States: Article V
- Constitution of the United States: Article VI
- Constitution of the United States: Article VII
- Constitution of the United States: Bill of Rights
- Constitution of the United States: Amendments XI - XXVII
- United States Constitution: Article V from The Avalon Project