I don’t mean the actual rules of passing it, I mean what organization, activities and funding are necessary to do so.

The last one passed was in 1992 and it was just about congressional pay. Last one before that was 1971. Is there some kind of play book? It seems to happen so infrequently that it would be hard to study and conditions would vary enough that the last effort wouldn’t be useful as a model.

(“The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.” Link)

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    It would take a new Constitutional Convention to be proposed, where every single state will demand presence. Nothing will survive a vote unless it is a two-thirds majority.

    It would take a fucking massive financial investment in some grassroots organization to start the ball rolling with signature petitions circulating every human alive in every state to even be considered slightly noticeable by the media, then it might take off.