Amendment Vs 21st Amendment

There is a process by which congress or the states do to try and amend the constitution. First, congress or the state must propose an amendment that has to be voted on by both houses of congress, by a vote of two-thirds. If this vote goes through then the state legislatures call upon the congress to hold a constitutional convention. Once the amendment goes to congress the amendment must be ratified. To ratify an amendment three-fourths of the state legislatures have to approve it. Once ratified the constitution has a new amendment. Out of the hundreds of proposed amendments only 27 have be adopted by the United States.
Currently there are state legislatures trying to amend the constitution. The amendment would be for a balanced budget. This means that the government could not spend more than it takes in from taxes. If the government wanted to spend more it would have to go to vote in congress and would pass only if there was a two-thirds vote. This amendment would require the president to balance the budget each year.
Besides the conventional way of amending the constitution that I stated, which has only worked once to overturn the 18th amendment, which is the 21st amendment. There is article 5 of the constitution “that allows the states to sidestep Congress and draft their own constitutional …show more content…
Making it an amendment creates a mandate that requires Congress to balance the budget. If the state legislators tried to go the Federal law route, I believe that is would not make it through the Senate and the House with enough votes. If it did somehow pass both the Senate and House, then it could be vetoed by the president. Currently, with the Article 5 clause the state legislators are only six states short of being able to enact the clause. That means if there are 34 state legislators are on board for this amendment then it will call for the congressional convention to start the ratification