| ▲ | arcticbull 21 hours ago | |
An amendment requires 2/3 of the house and 2/3 of the senate -- or 34 of 50 states to call for a constitutional convention (which has never been done) -- just to float an amendment. Then 3/4 of the states have to ratify it. I don't think you could get half of states to agree the sky is blue let alone 3/4. [edit] The Equal Rights Amendment has been in progress since 1972 and while they somehow managed to get 3/4 of states to agree (Virginia agreed in 2020) the 7- and later 10-year deadline built into the bill had long elapsed. And 5 states later tried to rescind their ratifications which isn't really covered in the constitution in the first place. That one says simply: > Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. So I guess what I'm trying to say is godspeed. | ||