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According to ''Coleman'', it is none other than the Congress—if and when the Congress should later find itself presented with valid ratifications from the required number of states—which has the discretion to arbitrate the question of whether too much time has elapsed between Congress' initial proposal of the amendment and the most recent state ratification thereof assuming that, as a consequence of that most recent action, the legislatures of (or conventions conducted within) at least three-fourths of the states have approved the amendment at one time or another. This decision—which modified the 1921 ruling in '' Dillon V. Gloss ''—formed the basis of the belated and unusual ratification of the 27th Amendment . Thus far in American history, the 21st Amendment is the only one that was submitted to special ratifying conventions assembled in the states rather than to the state legislatures for ratification. SEE ALSO |
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