MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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51 percent of the delegates to agree
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Two-thirds of the delegates to agree
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Nine-thirteenths of the delegates to agree
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100 percent of the delegates to agree
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Detailed explanation-1: -Article V of the United States Constitution outlines basic procedures for constitutional amendment. Congress may submit a proposed constitutional amendment to the states, if the proposed amendment language is approved by a two-thirds vote of both houses.
Detailed explanation-2: -Congress needed 9 of 13 states to pass any laws. Requiring this high supermajority made it very difficult to pass any legislation that would affect all 13 states.
Detailed explanation-3: -The government conducted the affairs of the country during the last two years of the Revolutionary War, helped to negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and produced two monumental pieces of legislation in the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Detailed explanation-4: -A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May of 1787. Known as the Constitutional Convention, at this meeting it was decided that the best solution to the young country’s problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.