Question

When an amendment is proposed, who determines the method of ratification?

Answer 1

The states and the congress. If a constitutional amendment is going to be ratified, first it has to get votes of support from 2/3 of both the house of representatives and the senate, after which it goes on voting in individual states, and if 3/4 of states ratify it then it becomes an official amendment of the constitution.

Answer 2

There are two ways to change the Constitution: in the congressional proposal and the state convention method. Congressional proposal method requires two-thirds of the two chambers of Congress must propose amendments, whereas the state convention method requires two-thirds of the states must ask Congress to hold the convention.

 

EXPLANATION

Article V is an article explaining the constitutional amendment process, but the Framers intended that the amendment process is not easy: although the federal government can also add amendments, three-quarters of states must ratify each amendment.

Congress has proposed 27 amendments to the United States Constitution. 26 of them have been passed by three-quarters of the state legislature. The remaining amendments were ratified by three-quarters of the state conventions.

Whereas in the state convention method, two-thirds of the states must ask Congress to hold the convention. Then an amendment will be proposed at this meeting. As in the method of a congressional proposal, the proposed amendment must then be ratified by three-quarters of the state conventions or the state legislature, as chosen by Congress. However, the state convention method has never been used to amend.

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KEYWORD: ratification, constitution, congress

Subject: History

Class: 10-12

Subchapter: amendment