Train now boarding passengers: Three ways of Cha-cha, with two ways of con-con

(Photo by Myra Lambino-Ramos)

Three ways of amending the Constitution:

1.Congress, by three-fourths vote of all its members, may constitute  itself into a constituent assembly (con-ass)

2.By constitutional convention:

2.1. Congress, by two-thirds vote of all its members, may call for a con-con; or

2.2.Congress, by majority vote, may submit the question of calling for a con-con to the electorate

3.People’s initiative, amendments only, by petition