2. What is the number of votes necessary in the Senate? Answer-- Two-thirds of fifty--thirty-four at the least.
3. What number in the House of Representatives? Answer--Two- thirds of one hundred and twenty-eighty votes at the least.
4. What authority directs the manner of submission to the people? Section 1.
5. What authority prescribes the day of meeting? Section 1.
6. Can a convention so called to alter the Constitution? Answer- -Yes; it can amend the Constitution or make a new one.
7. What is a "restricted convention"? Answer--One in which the General Assembly provides that the members shall confine their action to certain specified matters, or shall refrain from making changes in certain particulars. Some have doubted the power of the General Assembly to bind the members in this way, but it has been done several times in this State.
8. Can the Constitution be altered without calling a Convention?
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