If I'm not mistaken, A 3/4 majority vote in both houses of congress is necessary to make an amendment to the US constitution.
Fractions are very useful in measuring. Example. I buy enough weed killer for 1000 sq. ft. of lawn because the store was out of the bottle for 500 sq. ft. SO...... I only need 1/2 (half) the bottle because I only have 1/2 the yard . Another example. Polls indicate two out of three people in the US will vote for John McCain for president. There are 3 million registered voters. How many votes will he get? And, if 2 out of three will vote for him, how many will Obama get? If 2 out of 3 ....(2/3)... vote for McCain, and there are 3 million voters, 2/3 or 2 million will vote for McCain, leaving one out of three (1/3) for Obama, which is one million.
If you are under 18 you cannot vote.
This is my example: We will follow those procedures.
The answer is union-specific.
Amending the Constitution
Yes, to override a veto that is needed.
By a vote of two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states
By a vote of two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states
false
Equal Rights Amendment
No amendment can alter equal representation in the Senate without the consent of the state. This is expressed in Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.
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3/4 of all states' approval needed to ammend the constitution
If I'm not mistaken, A 3/4 majority vote in both houses of congress is necessary to make an amendment to the US constitution.
The process you are referring to is the ratification of a constitutional amendment, not a regular law. According to Article V of the U.S. Constitution, if Congress proposes a constitutional amendment, it must be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the states in order to become law. This is a higher threshold than the usual process for passing laws, which only requires a simple majority in both houses of Congress.
The Amendment process is the formal way to change the Constitution. An amendment may be proposed by two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. Ratification of an amendment takes three-fourths of the states to approve.