Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures.[1] To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by either—as determined by Congress—the legislatures of three-quarters of the states or state ratifying conventions in three-quarters of the states.[2] The vote of each state (to either ratify or reject a proposed amendment) carries equal weight, regardless of a state's population or length of time in the Union. Article V is silent regarding deadlines for the ratification of proposed amendments, but most amendments proposed since 1917 have included a deadline for ratification. Legal scholars generally agree that the amending process of Article V can itself be amended by the procedures laid out in Article V, but there is some disagreement over whether Article V is the exclusive means of amending the Constitution.
The strong politics of radical reconstruction was largely ineffective in changing the attitudes of White southerners towards African Americans because the white southerners were not mentally ready to accept African Americans as socially equal human beings.
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The efforts taken by radical Republicans in the 1860s and 1870s in order to establish a society without the prevalence of racial discrimination mostly proved unsuccessful.
The fact that the African Americans were relieved from slavery forever angered most white southerners and culminated in violent clashes between the two.
The Great Awakening stressed religious emotion, and the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. Both the Renaissance and the Reformation inspired Englightenment thinkers. "Quizlet"
