Which of the Following Statements About the Ratification of Constitutional

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the ratification of constitutional amendments is LEAST accurate?

• A) Though it has never been done, Congress may convene a national convention to discuss amendments, if two-thirds of the state legislatures request it.
• B) Initially, no time limit was placed on the ratification process, allowing one amendment passed by Congress in the eighteenth century to be ratified at the end of the twentieth.
• C) An amendment is ratified as soon as a simple majority of states vote to approve it.
• D) In order to pass Congress, an amendment must secure two-thirds of the vote in both houses.
• E) States can ratify amendments either through a vote in the legislature or by calling a special ratifying convention.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A statistical range, with a given probability, that contains the true parameter of the population.

Mean

The mean is the average of a set of numerical values, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the count of the values.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the mean.

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of numbers in the set.