{"id":2812,"date":"2016-12-23T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=2812"},"modified":"2022-07-04T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:58:26","slug":"simulation-short","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=2812","title":{"rendered":"Simulation (short)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rules recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>formally proposed<\/strong> by a simultaneous majority vote of the people of a group of states\/D.C.\/territories that comprise a majority of the population of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>ratified<\/strong> six months later, provided that the states\/D.C.\/territories that did not vote the first time have an opportunity to do so, and that the overall vote remains a majority vote of the people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is how it could happen. Dates are illustrative. It does not have to take this long.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April, 2026. D.C. City Council puts this amendment on the November ballot.<\/li>\n<li>April-November, 2026. Congress and the courts do not intervene, due to some combination of sympathy for D.C. voting rights, the fact that 2\/3 of House members come from large states, the filibuster, and First Amendment grounds.<\/li>\n<li>November, 2026. 90% of D.C. residents vote in favor. Because no other states participate, the Section 1 threshold is not met and the amendment fails. However, this is the first time that any group of citizens formally reject Article V exclusivity.<\/li>\n<li>2027-2030. Large states hold a convention to modify the proposal.<\/li>\n<li>November, 2030. California, D.C., and a few other large states hold this referendum. 60% vote in favor. Again, this group of states does not make up a majority of the U.S. population, so the amendment dies.<\/li>\n<li>November, 2034. All large states, D.C., and the territories participate. The vote is 58% in favor. This group makes up a majority of the population of the U.S., so this is a \u201cproposed\u201d amendment.<\/li>\n<li>November, 2034-April 2035. Some other states participate, and others do not. The overall vote is 56% in favor. The amendment has been ratified.<\/li>\n<li>April, 2035. The House of Representatives recognizes the validity of this amendment because it is the will of the people, because it is just, and because about 2\/3 of House members come from large states. The Senate, president, and small states do as well because the people have spoken.<\/li>\n<li>December, 2035. An opinion by the Supreme Court unanimously recognizes the new amendment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=51\">here<\/a> for a more thorough description of this scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rules recap: It is formally proposed by a simultaneous majority vote of the people of a group of states\/D.C.\/territories that comprise a majority of the population of the United States. It is ratified six months later, provided that the states\/D.C.\/territories that did not vote the first time have an opportunity to do so, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2812","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2812\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}