[Footnote 25: Elliot's Debates, Vol. II, p. 470.] [Footnote 26: Elliot's Debates, Vol. I, p. 422.] [Footnote 27: Ibid., p. 450.] [Footnote 28: Book 5, Ch. I, Part II.] [Footnote 29: Elliot's Debates, Vol. V, p. 160.] [Footnote 30: Ibid., p. 137.] [Footnote 31: Elliot's Debates, Vol. I, p. 450.] [Footnote 32: Ibid., pp. 421-422.] [Footnote 33: Ibid., p. 475.] [Footnote 34: No. 10.] [Footnote 35: In Massachusetts and New Hampshire the constitutions framed during the Revolutionary period were submitted to popular vote. The Virginia Constitution of 1776 contained the declaration "that, when any government shall have been found inadequate or contrary to these purposes [the purposes enumerated in the Bill of Rights], a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal." The Revolutionary constitution of Pennsylvania contained a similar declaration. Poore, Charters and Constitutions.] [Footnote 36: Elliot's Debates, Vol. III, pp. 48-50.] [Footnote 37: Ames, Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. This book gives a list of the amendments proposed during the first one hundred years of our history under the Constitution. During the fifteen years from 1889 to 1904, four hundred and thirty-five amendments were proposed. These figures are taken from a thesis submitted for the LL.B. degree at the University of Washington by Donald McDonald, A.B. It is interesting to observe that this is one of the few important features of the Constitution not copied by the Confederate States at the outbreak of the Civil War. The constitution which they adopted provided an easier method of amendment. Any three states could suggest amendments and require Congress to summon a convention of all the states to consider them. To adopt a proposed amendment ratification by legislatures or conventions in two-thirds of the states was necessary.] [Footnote 38: Political Science and Constitutional Law, Vol. I, p. 151.] [Footnote 39: The American Commonwealth, Vol. I, Ch. III.] [Footnote 40: Second Edition, Vol. I, Appendix, Note on Constitutional Conventions.] [Footnote 41: Fiske, The Critical Period of American History, p. 328.] [Footnote 42: McMaster, With the Fathers, p. 71.] [Footnote 43: Elliot's Debates, Vol. I, p. 423.] [Footnote 44: Woodrow Wilson, Division and Reunion, p. 12.] [Footnote 45: The vote in Massachusetts was 187 to 168 in favor of ratification; in New York, 30 to 27; in Virginia, 89 to 79.] [Footnote 46: No. 81.] [Footnote 47: The American Commonwealth, Vol. I, Ch. XXXII.] [Footnote 48: _Ibid._] [Footnote 49: Roosevelt in 1904 received less than 56.4 per cent. of the total popular vote.] [Footnote 50: In 1904 Roosevelt carried thirty-two states--two more than two-thirds.] [Footnote 51: Poore, Charters and Constitutions.] [Footnote 52: A. Lawrence Lowell, Essays on Government, p. 40.]