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Only members of Congress or state legislatures can propose an amendment to the Constitution.
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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.
Congress may propose an amendment to the Constitution when two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate vote in favor of it.
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to address the changing and evolving nation
In the fall of 1789, the First Congress submitted the first constitutional amendments to the states for ratification. When Virginia representative James Madison introduced those amendments, some members protested that the Constitution was so new that they ought not hurry to change it
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To propose a constitutional amendment, it must be approved by a two-thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This means at least 290 members in the House and at least 67 members in the Senate must vote in favor of the amendment. Once approved by Congress, the amendment is then sent to the states for ratification.
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.
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