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If an amendment to the Constitution is submitted to the states, then three-fourths of all states must approve it. Today that would be 38 states. This action, if it occurred, would result in a Constitutional Convention in order to add the amendment.
This process has never been used to add any amendment.
The more usual process is the creation of a joint resolution of Congress, which is approved by two-thirds votes in both houses and forwarded to the National Archivist for inclusion in the Constitution.
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The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Most of the southern states refused to ratify (approve) it and had to be forced to obey the law. They did not want to pass the amendment because it would?
make the newly freed slaves citizens.
Which amendment made it legal to make and sell alcoholic beverages?
The Twenty-first Amendment to the U. S. Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and made possession and use of alcohol legal again.
Where are all amendments of the constitution approved at?
Constitutional amendments must first pass both houses of congress, and they are then sent to the states to be ratified. To become a law, 3/4 of the states must agree to ratify an amendment. This is to make sure that amending the constitution is difficult and requires a lot of thought before it happens. So, to sum up, after a proposed amendment is approved by congress, it must then go to the individual states; if enough states vote to approve it, the amendment becomes a part of the constitution.
Most amendMent to the constitution proposed by congress?
It is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution. It was submitted by Congress to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789.
How many states approved to the Constitution to make it the law of the land?
it had to be nine states to approve the constitution before it became a law HI
