Article 5 of the Constitution outlines a second method for amending the Constitution in which a national convention is assembled at the request of the legislatures by two-thirds of the states, which would mean thirty four states. This is the other alternative two-thirds (or the super majority) of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.
Answer:
No, because it's not a representative sample of the people of the US.
Explanation:
In statistical analysis, a representative sample is a subset of a population that matches the characteristics of the whole population. A survey instrument (like a poll) used to collect information from a representative sample allows us to extrapolate the results of the survey to the whole population. However, if the sample is non-representative, this can't be done. In this case, <u>the telephone poll is not representative of the whole population of the US</u>, because this poll was conducted by contacting only people who have landline phones, thereby excluding people who only have mobile phones and people who have no phone at all. Therefore, no matter the results of the poll, you can't say that over 50% of all people in the U.S. do not support gay marriage.
The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream. Based on the success of the Low Dam, then at its maximum utilization, construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the government following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952; with its ability to better control flooding, provide increased water storage for irrigation, and generate hydroelectricity the dam was seen as pivotal to Egypt's planned industrialization. Like the earlier implementation, the High Dam has had a significant effect on the economy and culture of Egypt.
Before the High Dam was built, even with the old dam in place, the annual flooding of the Nile during late summer had continued to pass largely unimpeded down the valley from its East African drainage basin. These floods brought high water with natural nutrients and minerals that annually enriched the fertile soil along its floodplain and delta; this predictability had made the Nile valley ideal for farming since ancient times. Since this natural flooding varied however, high-water years could destroy the whole crop, while low-water years could create widespread drought and associated famine. Both these events had continued to occur periodically. As Egypt's population grew and technology increased, both a desire and the ability developed to completely control the flooding, and thus both protect and support farmland and its economically important cotton crop. With the greatly increased reservoir storage provided by the High Aswan Dam, the floods could be controlled and the water could be stored for later release over multiple years.
