Article 26 & Article 27 Amendments, Ratification and Initial Provisions.

Amendments, Ratification and Initial Provisions.

Article 26 – Amendments

Section 1 Amendment by Parliament

Parliament, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution which shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several Realms including a majority of the Principal and Larger Realms, or by an absolute majority of the voters in a referendum, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by parliament.

Section 2 Amendment by Convention

On the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several Realms, Parliament shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments which shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several Realms including a majority of the Principal and Larger Realms, or by an absolute majority of the voters in a referendum, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by parliament.

Article 27 – Ratification and Coming into Force

Section 1 Ratification

This constitution shall come into force upon the ratification of the same either by the act of the legislatures or by convention or by referendum of the people of a majority of the Realms named in the preamble.

Section 2 Implementation

Upon notice that the aforementioned act of ratification has occurred, her/is majesty shall issue writs of election for the House of Commons and Senate and issue letters patent to members of the House of Peers and there by set a date for their meeting. That upon that date appointed, the Members of the Federal Council, Peers, Senators, and Representatives should convene at the Time and Place assigned and should, without Delay, proceed to execute this Constitution

Section 3 Oaths

The Peers, Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several Realm Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the Commonwealth Federation and of the several Realms, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the Commonwealth Federation, except as to the Monarch.

Done in convention, those hereinafter named and many others being witness, at the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines on the 15^th Day of June in the XX^th Year of the reign of our gracious queen, Elizabeth II and from the sealing of the Great Charter the XXX^th.