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Socialist Party (U.S.). Socialist Handbook, Campaign 1916 - Image 59. 1916. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. January 24, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/260/show/250.

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Title	Socialist Handbook, Campaign 1916
Alternative Title	Socialist handbook, for president, Allen L. Benson; for vice-president, George R. Kirkpatrick; the workers' candidates, not backed by Wall street or the war trust
Creator (LCNAF)	Socialist Party (U.S.)
Publisher	Socialist Party
Place of Creation (TGN)	Chicago, Illinois
Date	1916
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism
Subject.Topical (Local)	Campaign literature
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	Socialist Party (U.S.)
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	63 pages; 17 cm.
Original Item Location	HX89.S62
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304531~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 59
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File Name	uhlib_11666601_058.jpg
Transcript	must be proposed by vote of three-fourths of the members elected to each house, and ratified by three-fourths of the electors voting in the whole state, and at least two-thirds of those voting in each county. After the expiration of twenty- five years, for further amendments, only two-thirds of the elected members and two-thirds of the electors will be required. 2. In New Hampshire an amendment can be submitted only by a constitutional convention, and requires for ratification two-thirds of all electors voting. The convention can be called not oftener than once in seven years, and the process of calling it is excessively difficult. 3. Indiana requires, for the approval of an amendment, a majority of the votes of all the qualified electors of va state. Rarely does a majority of the qualified electors of a state register even, much less vote. The constitution of Indiana has never been amended. 4. Seven states fix a term of years after an amendment has failed of adoption before it can be resubmitted: Illinois, four years; Kentucky, five years; New Jersey, five years; Pennsylvania, five years; Tennessee, six years; New Hampshire, seven years; Vermont, ten years. 5. Four states restrict the number of amendments to be submitted at an election: Illinois to one, Kentucky to two, Arkansas to three, while Indiana declares that while an amendment agreed upon by one legislature awaits action of the next, or of the electors, no additional amendment may be proposed. 6. The above difficulties are not offset by the convention method of amendment. Twelve states are without provision for constitutional conventions. These states are: Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont. In only two of these twelve states, Arkansas and North Dakota, can amendments be submitted by petition. Maryland only permits a convention every twenty years, submitting the question of its convening at that time to the electors. Ten states require that a majority of the votes cast at the election at which can- 57