The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. The ERA Amendment did not pass the necessary majority of state legislatures in the 1980s. Another option to start the amendment process is that two-thirds of the state legislatures could ask Congress to call a Constitutional Convention.
A new Constitutional Convention has never happened, but the idea has its backers. A retired federal judge, Malcolm R. Wilkey, called a few years ago for a new convention. "The Constitution has been corrupted by the system which has led to gridlock, too much influence by interest groups, and members of Congress who focus excessively on getting reelected," Wilkey said in a published series of lectures.
<span>The colony of Maryland passed the legislation which </span>granted religious freedom<span> to any person who </span>professed belief in Jesus Christ<span>.</span>
I believe your answer would be "The beauty of England's Lake Disctrict." I am as well doing this quiz right now but I know this because, William Wordsworth lived in England Lake District, which is where he spent his days writing poems.
