Assertion: convention's state | /r/CapableOf | apply to congress
Facets:
value: for amendments
type: PURPOSE
value: for a convention
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In response to these concerns, the Convention unanimously voted to add the language allowing states to apply to Congress for a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution.
text: The draft language suggests that states applying to Congress for amendments would have to say what sort of amendments they were applying for, because a general petition (that is, one not limited by subject matter) asking Congress to propose amendments would serve little purpose "beyond notifying Congress that two‐thirds of the States thought that some unknown changes to the Constitution were desirable.