The Constitution<span> provides that an </span>amendment<span> may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a </span>constitutional<span> convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.</span>
Both the Chinese and the Japanese felt that the Europeans were barbarians. They were particularly repelled by the smell of these foreigners who ate much fattier diets and who did not typically wash very often. They also felt the Europeans lacked subtlety and were rather crass in their behaviors.
The similarities, however, largely end there. The Chinese tried to simply ignore the Europeans. They were able to do this to some degree because the Europeans did not have anything they wanted. They were willing to take European silver in exchange for tea and otherwise leave the Europeans alone. This worked until around the time of the Opium Wars when the Europeans forced China to open itself more.
Their was a new law made about labor. I'm not sure tho