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Upon adoption by the Congress or a national convention, an amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures or by special state ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states. The decision of which ratification method will be used for any given amendment is Congress' alone to make.
They weren't, as laws so often are, thrust into being by a scant majority over an unwilling, nearly equal minority. The Amendment process is just that: a process, and a lengthy one, as it typically takes over a year on average to ratify a formal change to the Constitution.