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Go out and get 35 of the 50 states to agree with the future amendment
States Needed to Ask for a ConventionThree-fourths of the states are needed in order to ask for a convention to propose new amendments.
Go out and get 35 of the 50 states to agree with the future amendment
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The government of the United States is broken into three branches. The one that would propose and pass an Amendment on school prayer is the legislative branch or Congress.
The two groups that have the power to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution are: The U.S. Congress The StatesThe U.S. Congress has the power to propose an amendment when two-thirds of both the Senate and the House of Representatives vote in favor of the amendment. The States also have the power to propose an amendment if two-thirds of the state legislatures vote in favor of the amendment. In either case any amendments proposed have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states in order to become part of the Constitution.
The Amendment process is the formal way to change pieces of the Constitution to better suit the nation's rights. According to Article V, two-thirds of Congress must deem it necessary in order to propose an amendment. To ratify the amendment, three-fourths of the states must approve.
The 17th Amendment took the voice of the states away by allowing Senators to be elected by popular vote instead f by the state Legislatures.
No branch of Congress ratifies an amendment. 2/3s of both houses (House and Senate) propose an amendment and send the proposed amendment out to the states for ratification. 3/4s of the states are needed to "ratify" an amendment. This is found in Article 5 of the Constitution.
To propose an amendment: 1. Two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to propose an amendment, or 2. Two-thirds of the state legislatures ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments.
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