User talk:Philfromwaterbury

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Adoption vs. ratified
Ratification is the second part of a two-step to amending the U.S. Constitution. First, an amendment must be proposed. After that, three-fourths of the States (currently 38) must ratify the amendment for it to be adopted and thereby becomes part of the Constitution. A proposed amendment may be ratified by many States, but fail to be adopted because it did not receive enough ratifications (e.g., District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment). So the correct word in the 2A article is "adopted," because it was not just ratified by States but was ratified by enough States for it to become adopted as part of the Constitution. SMP0328. (talk) 00:35, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Hello. I was going to come here to warn you about edit warring on Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, where you have made the same edit a total of 8 times now, reverting four separate editors. However, I see that you have already acknowledged several such warnings and still continued to revert, and you have not attempted to discuss your edits on the talk page. So, instead, I am blocking you from editing for 48 hours for edit warring. You can appeal this block using the information at the Guide to Appealing Blocks. Furthermore, I will be providing you with a second notice momentarily (it must be provided in a second edit for technical reasons), which you should also read. ST47 (talk) 03:22, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
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