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This includes both expired amendments, those for which the time period set for their consideration ran out, and still pending amendments, those sent to the states without a ratification deadline. Proposals to amend the United States Constitution introduced in but not approved by Congress should be included in Category:Proposed amendments to the ...
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.
Amending the United States Constitution is a two-step process. Proposals to amend it must be properly adopted and ratified before becoming operative. A proposed amendment may be adopted and sent to the states for ratification by either: The United States Congress, whenever a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House deem it necessary; or
Ratification of a proposed amendment has been done by state conventions only once—the 1933 ratification process of the 21st Amendment. [1] The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier.
When the states have ratified the proposed amendment, then it becomes part of the Constitution. “…(O)ne or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by Congress…” to the states.
An amendment with an attached deadline that is not ratified by the required number of states within the set time period is considered inoperative and rendered moot. [6] A proposed amendment becomes an official Article of the Constitution immediately once it is ratified by three-fourths of the States. [6]
Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states and are not part of the Constitution. Four of these amendments are still technically open and pending, one is closed and has failed by its own terms, and one is closed and has failed by the terms of the resolution proposing it.
A convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also referred to as an Article V Convention, state convention, [1] or amendatory convention is one of two methods authorized by Article Five of the United States Constitution whereby amendments to the United States Constitution may be proposed: on the Application of two thirds of the State legislatures (that is, 34 of the 50 ...