When an amendment is ratified by three-fourths of congress or by three-fourths of state legislatures, it becomes part of the federal constitution, and all states—even those that did not ratify the amendment—must follow the laws in the new amendment.

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social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv