Assertion: proposed amendment | /r/HasProperty | ratified by three-fourths of the states
Facets:
value: immediately
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: A proposed amendment becomes an official Article of the Constitution immediately once it is ratified by three-fourths of the States.
text: A proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (38 of 50 States).
text: A proposed amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (currently 38 of the 50 states).
text: The other method for amending the Constitution (the one employed with every amendment so far proposed or enacted) requires that the proposed amendment be approved by both houses of Congress (i.e., the Senate and the House of Representatives) by a two-thirds majority in each, and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.