The Constitution provides that an amendment can be proposed either by Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate, or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds ...

Vik Amar, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana Champaign, joins Jon Hansen to talk about Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution and the shifting interpretations ...

Second: A Constitutional Convention can be called by two-thirds of the states’ legislatures. There, one or more amendments to the Constitution can be proposed.

What amendments to the U.S. Constitution, if any, would you like to see? The widespread belief is that the American constitutional republic, if not actually broken, is in a state of disrepair. In ...

Only three-quarters of the states can amend the Constitution. Yet, for generations, Congress and the president have engaged in a subtle amendment by consent.

It is possible to argue, of course, that the Constitution should not be altered with great frequency so, from that perspective, the amendment process should not be too easy.

The first 10 amendments are commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights, and the remaining 17 deal with everything from who can vote, to whether or not senators can give themselves a raise.

It’s not easy to change the Constitution—and that’s exactly what the Framers intended. The post What Would It Take to Amend the Constitution? appeared first on Reader's Digest.

The surprising aspect of this conclusion is not that the Constitution can be informally amended. That has been the usual way of making revisions. In 1803, the Supreme Court granted itself the ...