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This comment provides context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

by nabla9 2y ago

This comment provides context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_amendments_to... >Hundreds of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution are introduced during each session of the United States Congress. From 1789 through January 3, 2019, approximately 11,770 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution. > Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress. For amendment to pass, it requires 2/3 supermajority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

PaulHoule 2y ago
... that and it needs to be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures! See the story of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment which led a lot of people to think the nation is so polarized that we could never get another constitutional amendments. (Some parents of my friends were hoping in the 1980s to get one to ban abortion and... yeah right!) But then there was the amazing story of the 27th https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxvii/interpretations/165 https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/a...