The authority to amend the constitution comes from Article V of the constitution. After congress proposes an amendment the Archivist of the United States is charged with the responsibility of ratification. The constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed by congress with two-thirds majority vote in both the house and senate or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the state legislatures. None of the 27 amendments have been proposed by the convention method. The congress proposes an amendment in the form of a joint resolution. The president doesn't have a constitutional role so it doesn't go to him for approval.
the government have to get laws passed by all the different branches of government before it gets passed
The 8th amendment was passed prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishment.
Once an amendment has been passed it gets added to the consitution. Which means this new amendment has to be followed by each and every citizen of that country. Who ever breaks the amendment may have severe punishments.
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the last amendment was passed in 1992
The 13th amendment was passed by the end of Civil War before the Southern states had been restored back to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.
It was the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery.
This amendment benefits the Government and all others that the taxes are given/distributed to, because this amendment (passed in 1913,) made the tax on a personal income permanent. (by Solomon Zelman)
The Ninth Amendment was passed on December 15, 1791. passed by 3/4 of the states.
The second amendment was passed to ensure that the citizenry would always have the ability to oppose a tyrannical government.
The 19th amendment prohibited states and the federal government from denying people the right to vote based on sex. It was passed in 1920.