Article XXVIII

This article exists because constitutional amendments can sometimes take decades to gain public support and state ratification. Under current practice, Congress has often attached deadlines to proposed amendments, allowing them to expire before enough states have had the opportunity to consider them. 

This article establishes that constitutional amendments remain available for ratification unless a time limit is included within the amendment itself. By ensuring that constitutional proposals rise or fall based on public and state support rather than arbitrary deadlines, the article seeks to make the amendment process more democratic, deliberate, and responsive to changing generations of Americans.

Section 1 — No Time Limitation on Ratification

No proposed amendment to this Constitution shall fail, expire, lapse, or become void solely by reason of the passage of time.

A proposed amendment shall remain pending before the several States until ratified or withdrawn pursuant to the terms under which it was proposed.

No statute, resolution, rule, or condition attached to a proposed amendment shall impose a time limitation upon the ratification of an amendment unless such limitation is contained within the text of the proposed amendment itself.