the amendments are found in the constitution in the bill of rights.
where are the amendments found in the constitution?
bill of rights
even though the article v convention process has never been used to amend the constitution, the number of states applying for a convention has nearly reached the required threshold several times. congress has proposed amendments to the constitution on several occasions, at least in part, because of the threat of an article v convention. rather than risk such a convention taking control of the amendment process away from it, congress acted pre-emptively to propose the amendments instead. the bill of rights, which includes the first ten amendments, as well as the twenty-seventh amendment, were proposed in part because of a convention application by the new york and virginia legislatures at the suggestion of a letter from the new york state convention to ratify the constitution. the convention would have been limited to those changes discussed at the various state ratifying conventions. at least four other amendments (the seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-fifth amendments) have been identified as being proposed by congress at least partly in response to the threat of an article v convention, bringing the total to 15 out of 27, a majority of the amendments.
convention to propose amendments to the united states constitution
sawyer found himself at odds with the democratic organization on some occasions, most prominently on amendments to the city charter. in 1956, charter amendments aimed at weakening civil service protections were proposed. sawyer had campaigned against the idea and refused to go along with it. even without his support, the amendments found the required two-thirds vote in council to make it on to the ballot for popular approval. the pennsylvania supreme court struck down some of the amendments, and the rest failed in a referendum that april. such disagreements led the democratic city committee to withhold their endorsement of sawyer for a second term in 1959, and he retired from elected office to return to his law practice. in 1965, while serving as president of the southeastern pennsylvania chapter of the americans for democratic action, sawyer led a group of democrats who endorsed republican arlen specter for district attorney of philadelphia.
henry w. sawyer