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This is a Complaint pleading for use in litigation of the title matter. Adapt this form to comply with your facts and circumstances, and with your specific state law. Not recommended for use by non-attorneys.

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Passage by Congress. Proposed amendment language must be approved by a two-thirds vote of both houses.

An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.

Therefore, the Constitution can be amended in three ways: Amendment by a simple majority of the Parliament, Amendment by a special majority of the Parliament, and. Amendment by a special majority of the Parliament and the ratification of half of the State Legislatures.

It would be a rare person indeed who would accurately respond that the guarantee to each state of equal suffrage in the Senate is the only constitutional provision that is now expressly unamendable under the Constitution's own terms.

The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. The ERA Amendment did not pass the necessary majority of state legislatures in the 1980s.

In order to prevent arbitrary changes, the process for making amendments is quite onerous. An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose.

Art. V (stating that amendments to the Constitution may be ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress ).

The U.S. Constitution is difficult to change and has only been amended 27 times. State constitutions, on the other hand, are much easier to modify, and state constitutional amendments are adopted on a regular basis. The current constitutions of the 50 states have been amended around 7,000 times.

Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either house of the Legislature, and if two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses, shall vote in favor thereof, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their respective journals with the yeas and nays taken ...

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It is proposed to amend Utah Constitution, Article XIII, Section 5, to read: Article XIII, Section 5. The Utah Constitution can be amended with a legislative or covention-referred constitutional amendment, both of which require voter approval.Utah Constitutional Amendment B, the "raise the cap" amendment, addresses limits on annual distributions from the State School Fund. The Utah Constitution requires that the full text of a proposed constitutional amendment be published in at least one newspaper in every county of the state. Utah voters will weigh in on constitutional amendments B and C. Amendment D has been voided, and C could be to. Here's what they would do. Below is an overview of constitutional amendment processes in the 50 states. I discuss the various possible ways of amending state constitutions. Votes will still count for two of the four proposed amendments to the Utah Constitution that are on the general election ballot. In a ruling issues Wednesday, 3rd District Court Judge Laura Scott cited a recent Utah Supreme Court ruling on Amendment D as the reason why.

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