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Making laws is like making sausage. Here at the Constitutional Convention, sausage gets made.

 

There’s no mention of anyone saying so at the time, but how pointless and silly would it have been if ratification only required the agreement of the same 2/3 of the states that had proposed the amendment? Might as well not even bother with a second step.

Even so, Wilson’s 2/3 – 2/3 idea nearly passed on the first vote. NH, PA, DE, MD, and VA all voted yes, and MA, CT, NJ, NC, SC, and GA said no. (When he changed it to 3/4, it passed unanimously.) And that was that.

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