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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.