A Message From the Management

Dear everyone joining facebook group(s), “I bet we can get 1 million people to (fill in societal change here)”

1 million is not at all the number you should be shooting for. To amend the constitution you need just two-thirds of both houses of Congress to propose an amendment, or two-thirds of the state legislatures to ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments. (This method has never been used.) And then you only need three-fourths of the state legislatures to approve it, or ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states to approve it (this method has been used only once. It was to ratify the 21st amendment repealing prohibition.)

There are 535 people in both houses of Congress and fewer than 8,000 members in all state legislatures. So you need less than 1% of your original goal. Or, you need ratifying conventions in three fourths of the states and given the way votes spread and assuming about 125 million vote, you’ll probably need a little under 100 million to be safe.

Either way you’re way under or way over the goal. Pick a method, and then pick a goal. We’re at war.

Sincerely,

The Management