{"id":5129,"date":"2017-09-14T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2023-11-03T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:49:40","slug":"29-they-skipped-another-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5129","title":{"rendered":"29. They Skipped Another Step"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1457\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg29.webp\" alt=\"&quot;Just move on&quot; tends to mean a rush to get things wrong.\" class=\"wp-image-10059\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg29.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg29-768x932.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This bit always struck me as a rush job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For a month they&#8217;d been working with Wilson&#8217;s draft from the Committee of Detail.\u00a0That draft, if you recall, said amendments would be proposed by 2\/3 of the state legislatures, and ratified by a national convention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then on September 10, there was a lot of argument over it, culminating in Wilson&#8217;s new version saying amendments would be proposed by 2\/3 of the states, and ratified by 3\/4 of the states. The convention idea had vanished along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At which point Madison jumped in with this completely different last-minute substitute motion. The convention shelved Wilson&#8217;s indefinitely, voted on Madison&#8217;s, and passed it 9 to 1. Madison had re-introduced ratification by convention, but now state control of the process had disappeared!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just days away from September 15, the last day of business for the convention, they now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;well, we&#8217;ll see what happened next on the next page!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(PS\u2014How did Jemmy get the chalkboard to spin like that? Who draws this tripe?)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This bit always struck me as a rush job. For a month they&#8217;d been working with Wilson&#8217;s draft from the Committee of Detail.\u00a0That draft, if you recall, said amendments would be proposed by 2\/3 of the state legislatures, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,35,47,1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brink-of-disaster-slavery","category-constitutional-law","category-creating-the-constitution","category-uncategorized","category-what-were-they-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}