The congress whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or, on t
he application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states shall call a convection for proposing amendments, which in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first snd fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate. Which Article if the U.S. Constitution is the passage above from Article IV
Article V
Article VI
Article VII
Article V of the Articles of Confederation reflect representative government by granting to the states the right of having one vote and the opportunity to raise their voices in "determining questions in the United States" whenever the Congress assembles.
In short, states' rights, in this context, are the powers entitled to states rather than to the national unit alone, meaning that each state is sovereign and have jurisdiction over its affairs.
The Founding Fathers recognized that as times change, there may be a need to amend the Constitution. They did not however want to make this such an easy task that it would be done haphazardly.
For this reason they laid out the ways the Constitution could be amended in Article V of the Constitution, part of which is shown above, and since then there have been 27 amendments with the Bill of Rights being the first ones.
During Jackson's presidency, the United States evolved from a republic—in which only landowners could vote—to a mass democracy, in which white men of all
