3/4 of the states need to approve an ammendment.
You need 38 states.
3/4 of the states must approve it before it becomes part of the constitution.
Today, there are 50 states. 3/4 of 50 is 37.5, so we would need 38 states to approve an Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Because 2/3 of the 50 states must ratify the amendment for it to become law.
The total of nine states had to approve the Constitution to make it "the law of the land."
The first is the states legislative body can approve the amendment. The other is the states consititutional convention delegates are authorized to approve the amendment. The full details can be found in Article Five.
3/4 of the states must approve it before it becomes part of the constitution.
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Two thirds of the states must approve a change to the Constitution before it can go into effect. Since there are currently 50 states, 34 of them must approve any amendment.
Regardless of which of the two proposal routes is taken, the amendment must be ratified, or approved, by three-fourths of states. \STATES
9 states are needed to ratify the constitution
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two-thirds in the Senate, two-thirds in the House of Representatives, three-fourths of the states
No part of congress can amended the Constitution of the United States.First it takes 2/3's of both houses to 'propose' an amendment to the Constitution or 2/3's of all the 'states' legislators to purpose an amendment (this has not happen yet).It then takes a 3/4 vote of the 'states' legislators of the United States, which would presently have to be 38 states being that 2/3's is 37.5 states.Or ratifying conventions in 3/4's of the states approve it, again this would be 38 states. note: This only has happened once, and that was the 21st Amendment, which ended 'prohibition'.So you see only the States can amend the U.S. Constitution.
9 out of 13 states had to approve or ratify. The process was called ratification
Three-fourths of the states must ratify (approve) an amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution.