1 Roast beef for 5 minutes per pound. 2  Then turn off oven. 3  DO NOT OPEN OVEN FOR 2 HOURS! (For example, a 4-lb. roast would take 20 minutes to cook and then sit in the turned-off oven for 2 hours.). Preheat oven to 500 degrees. 2  If desired, trim off excess fat from roast beef. 3  Season with salt and pepper (and paprika, if desired). 4  Rub meat with vegetable oil. 5  Place meat in roasting pan in preheated oven. 6  Roast beef for 5 minutes per pound.
There have been close to 10,000 amendments proposed in Congress since 1789, and only a fraction of a percentage of those receive enough support to actually go through the constitutional ratification process. The success rate of an amendment to become part of the Constitution is less than 1%.t the time of its ratification, the population of the United States was around 4 million and today that population exceeds 309 million. Since its adoption the Constitution has only changed 27 times! Actually, since 1791 (with the inclusion of the Bill of Rights) it has only changed 16 times.
Both a statutory enactment and a constitutional amendment required eight percent of the votes cast, while a referendum required five percent of the votes cast. In 1954, the people amended the Oregon Constitution to increase the required number of signatures to 10 percent for a constitutional amendment.