Wednesday, February 25, 2004
I'm frankly surprised that the issue of gay marriages inspires so much fervor as to provoke talk of an amendment to the constitution. Time will tell how much of this talk is bluster but I expect this will be on people's lips for some time.
As to what it would take to amend the charter for our nation, Salon.com offers this article, "How the Constitution could be amended" to keep people appraised.
Essentially;
- a proposal of an amendment to the constitution needs to be agreed upon by two-thirds majority of both houses of congress to go to the states for ratification
- then the three-fourths of the states must ratifiy it to go into effect
I'm surprised by some of the statistics cited by the news item. I had no idea that the latest amendment (the 27th) was ratified as recently as 1992.
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