Does the gentleman from Massachusetts think that Article V of the Constitution distrusts democracy? Does the gentleman think when three-quarters of the State legislatures have to approve what we are doing here today by a bare majority vote, not a supermajority, that it is not distrusting democracy?
Discussing the constitutional amendment process and its implications for democracy.
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