Step 1 - Assume the 2nd Amendment is not going ANYWHERE. You need 290 votes in the House, 67 in the Senate and ratification from 38 states to change it.
You actually don’t require two-thirds support in the House and Senate – or any federal support at all – to amend the US Constitution. That’s only one of the routes. Two-thirds of the states can initiate the amendment process absent federal involvement.
You do require three-quarters of the states onboard to ratify an amendment, though, and that’s going to be the real bar for an amendment.
You actually don’t require two-thirds support in the House and Senate – or any federal support at all – to amend the US Constitution. That’s only one of the routes. Two-thirds of the states can initiate the amendment process absent federal involvement.
You do require three-quarters of the states onboard to ratify an amendment, though, and that’s going to be the real bar for an amendment.
34 states can call for a Constitutional Convention, but it still takes 38 to ratify and that’s not going to happen on any hot button issue.
Want to outlaw abortion? You need all 25 Trump states from 2020 + 13 Biden states. Good luck with that!
Outlaw guns? Flip it around… all 25 Biden states + 13 Trump states.