[396] Id. i., 2: 4. Amendment XVII., 2.
[397] Art. iv., 1: 2.
[398] Amendment XII.
[399] Art. ii., 2: 2.
[400] Id. iv., 2: 1.
[401] Id., 4. But the Governor cannot so apply if the Legislature is in session. The reason here is that the people of the State have fully empowered their representatives in the Legislature “to see that the Commonwealth suffers no harm.”
[402] Art. v.
[403] The Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) bears most heavily on States having large cities and a manufacturing population. It is possible that States which would be but slightly affected by a proposed amendment, might favor and ratify it; to avoid this possible discrimination, the suggestion has been made that in such a case the power of a State to ratify or to oppose ratification should be in proportion to its interests as affected by the proposed amendment. To this suggestion answer has been made that the Constitution is national, not local, in purpose and operation.
[404] Art. vi., 2, 3.
[405] Tenth Amendment.