Enshrining the right to vote and 2015's other constitutional amendment ideas

More than 11,000 amendments have been proposed in Congress to the constitution, and only 27 have become law. But that hasn’t stopped members of Congress from trying to add to that total and make their mark on the founding document of the United States. This year, congressmen and senators have proposed nearly 70 different amendments to the constitution.

Amending the constitution is an intentionally difficult process. In order to be enacted, an amendment needs to be approved by two-thirds majorities in both the House and the Senate, and then has to be approved by the legislatures in at least three-fourths of states (or 38 out of 50). The last amendment was passed more than two decades ago.

Many of the proposed amendments deal with a handful of controversial issues. There are a multitude of proposed amendments to mandate the federal government have a balanced budget, to establish mandatory term limits for members of Congress, and to overturn the supreme court’s decision in Citizens United and allow for more robust campaign finance regulations. But other proposed amendments are slightly more unconventional. These are five of the most interesting proposed amendments of 2015.

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