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In this way, how easy is it to add an amendment to the Constitution?
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.
Also asked, is it hard to amend the Constitution?
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. The ERA Amendment did not pass the necessary majority of state legislatures in the 1980s.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin and borrow money, which it had not had under the Articles of Confederation. The Framers made it easier to amend the Constitution than it had been to change the Articles of Confederation.