Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress for the admission of new States into the Union.
This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would change how new states are admitted to the United States. Currently, Congress can admit new states with a simple majority vote in both the House and Senate; this amendment would require a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers instead. The proposal also maintains existing protections that prevent new states from being created within another state's borders or from combining multiple states without consent from the affected state legislatures. The amendment would need to pass Congress with a two-thirds vote in both chambers and then be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures to become part of the Constitution, with a seven-year deadline for state ratification. This change would primarily affect any future efforts to admit new territories as states and would make such admissions significantly more difficult by requiring broader congressional consensus.
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