Article Five Of Article 5 Of The Constitution

Article Five of the Constitution dictates the process by which an amendment becomes part of the Constitution. First, an amendment may be proposed either by Congress with a two­thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a constitutional convention called for by two­thirds of the State legislatures. All 27 amendments that have been ratified were proposed through Congress. After being approved by Congress, three­fourths of the states must affirm the proposed Amendment (38 of 50) before it is ratified into the Constitution. As of December 2014, approximately 11,623 measures have been proposed to amend the Constitution.
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