The FR COS Disinformation Squad will be all over this thread.
The Deep Stae fears a COS more than anything, and they have an army of Useless Idiots ready to spam threads.
“It will be the end of the US!” they claim, but cannot explain exactly how.
All: Read the Constitution, Article V.
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The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps:
Proposal:
There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.
Article V gives Congress and an amendments convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, except that a convention is limited to proposing amendments specified in the application and there is no such limit on Congress.
Direction:
Once Congress, or an amendments convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:
The state ratifying convention method has only been used once: to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition. A similar procedure was used to ratify the Constitution itself.
Ratification:
Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three fourths of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.
Forbidden Subjects:
Article V contains two explicitly forbidden subjects and two implicitly forbidden subjects.
Explicitly forbidden:
Implicitly forbidden:
Reference works:
Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States: A Handbook for State Lawmakers