Southern states employed various tactics to circumvent the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. They implemented Black Codes to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans, enforcing labor contracts that essentially bound them to low-wage work. Additionally, they used convict leasing systems to exploit incarcerated individuals, often targeting Black citizens for minor offenses. Lastly, discriminatory practices like literacy tests and poll taxes were introduced to suppress Black voting rights, maintaining white supremacy in the political landscape.
It takes a three-fourths ratio from the states to pass an amendment. Before an amendment goes to the states, it has to pass both house of legislature.
The only constitutional amendment ratified by approval of conventions in three-fourths of the states is the 21st Amendment. Ratified in 1933, it repealed the 18th Amendment, which had established Prohibition in the United States. The 21st Amendment was unique in that it was the first and only amendment to be ratified by state conventions rather than by state legislatures.
{Led by Phyllis Schlafly, enough concerns about the amendment were presented that the Equal Rights Amendment was unable to garner sufficient states for ratification, falling three short of the necessary 38.}
Three fourths.
three-fifths compromise (english) compromiso de tres quintas partes (spanish)
Three-fourths (38) of the states must ratify an amendment in order to add it to the Constitution.
A proposed amendment becomes part of the constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 of 50 states).
1. an amendment is official when three-fourths of the state legislatures approve it. 2. when special conventions in three-fourths of the states approve it.
ratification of the amendment requires three fourths of the states to ratify.
becuase obama is president
ratified by three-fourths of the states
Regardless of which of the two proposal routes is taken, the amendment must be ratified, or approved, by three-fourths of states. \STATES