[1] Constitutional Law—Amendments to Constitution of United States.—In so far as the constitution of the United States speaks upon the matter of amendments thereto, it controls, and any provision of a state constitution in conflict therewith must be held as naught.

[2] Id.—Ratification of Amendments by “Legislatures” of States —Construction of Constitutional Provision.—The word “legislatures” as used in article V of the constitution of the United States;- requiring amendments to the constitution to be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, where Congress in submitting • the amendment proposes that method of ratification, means the official representative bodies invested with the lawmaking power of the several states as distinguished from the people themselves, and the referendum provision of our state constitution cannot .be invoked in the matter of the ratification of such amendment's.

1. Provision of constitution for amendment thereof as mandatory or directory, note, 15 Arm. Cas. 786.

Effect of noncompliance with prescribed method of amending constitution, note, 10 L. R. A. (N. S.) 149,

[3] Id. — Adoption op Initiative and Referendum in Various States—Original Meaning op Constitutional Provision Unchanged.—The provision of article V of the constitution of the United States requiring amendments to the constitution to be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states where Congress, in submitting’ the amendment proposes that method of ratification must be taken to-day to mean exactly what it meant when originally written into the constitution, regardless of the adoption during recent years in many states of the initiative and referendum.

3. Ratification of amendments'to federal constitution as subject to state referendum, note, 5 A. L." R. 1417.