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Article V - Amendments
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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.
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