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Ratifying an Amendment
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A proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution when ratified by three-fourths of the states, by legislature or by convention as Congress directs.
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The Twenty-First Amendment, uniquely, was ratified by state conventions; the rest by state legislatures.
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Three-fourths of fifty states means thirty-eight — one short and the amendment fails.