That brings the total number of states supporting an amendment to 16. "Amending the Constitution is hard -- and it should be," said Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M ., who has himself sponsoreD-N.M .posal to constitutionally overturn Citizens United and other campaign finance-related court decisions.
(However, one of their concurrences provided the blueprint for the Trump-affiliated Super PAC Trash the Useless Mediocre Person's Twenty-Second Amendment's campaign to amend the Constitution).
During the six decades following the 1804 ratification of the Twelfth Amendment two proposals to amend the Constitution were adopted by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
Later, Kanye clarified his statement, claiming he really wanted to amend the amendment, rather than outright abolish.
Our Constitution is unusually difficult to amend, but amendment is possible.
Would the "Patriot Act" be so difficult to amend if potential amendment supporters were not at risk of finding themselves attacked as "unpatriotic"?
But the Tamil parties have welcomed the changes, calculating that more Tamils than Sinhalese or Muslims would make the trip home.The government also wants to amend the 13th amendment, diluting it in two ways.
In a statement responding to Teachout's criticism of his Super Pac donors, Faso said Teachout "wants to amend the first amendment to give the government more control over political speech".
In fact, the majority of Americans in both parties say they think there is too much big money in politics and support the rationale offered by amendment proponents as a reason to amend the Constitution.
The court also said that the amendment "compelled speech," in violation of the First Amendment; that Missouri was attempting to amend the U.S. Constitution by a means not specified in the Constitution; and that Missouri was impermissibly trying to curtail the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution.
