Article II. Franchise and Officers. We will be looking at the constitutional amendment process for the US and Virginia constitutions.The authority to amend the Constitution of the United States is derived from Article V of the Constitution. And why does it seem so hard to keep track of amendments? How to Amend the Virginia Constitution. States offer multiple paths for amending their constitutions, which are much easier to change than the federal Constitution. Abortion, samesex marriage, voting rights proposals head to full House vote in January. The current Virginia Constitution has been amended 15 times since 2006. Notice of the date on which a State ratified a proposed constitutional amendment. The delegates who gathered in convention in Richmond in 1901 to rewrite Virginia's Constitution had no doubt about why they were there.