Depending on the areas in need of rejuvenation, the initial incision for eyelid surgery is either made along the lower lash line or the upper eyelid crease. Fat deposits, which cause puffiness, and droopy excess skin are removed and the incisions are closed with little or no subsequent scarring.
Regardless of how the amendment is proposed, it must be ratified by the States. 1  Three-fourths of the state legislatures must approve of the amendment proposed by Congress, or. 2  Three-fourths of the states must approve the amendment via ratifying conventions.
The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. The ERA Amendment did not pass the necessary majority of state legislatures in the 1980s. Another option to start the amendment process is that two-thirds of the state legislatures could ask Congress to call a Constitutional Convention. A new Constitutional Convention has never happened, but the idea has its backers. A retired federal judge, Malcolm R. Wilkey, called a few years ago for a new convention.