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

  photo by Myra Lambino-Ramos

 

(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