Method of Amendment
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, in which amendments are set out beneath the main body (and brackets or strike-through are sometimes used to show text in the main body that an amendment has made inoperative), amendments to the New Hampshire constitution change the text in place. Although a law book with annotations describes amendments to the text, the actual amendment is not included in a presentation of the constitution; only the text as the amendment revised it. An amendment will sometimes add an article; for instance, an article following Article 12 will be called Article 12-a.
Amendments are proposed both to make policy changes and to make clerical changes such as gender neutrality.
Part II, Article 100 of the constitution provides for the following two methods of proposing amendments to the constitution:
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