<P> In September 2016, CSG held a simulated convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution in Williamsburg, Virginia . An assembly of 137 delegates representing every state gathered to conduct a simulated convention . The simulated convention passed amendments relating to six topics, including requiring the states to approve any increase in the national debt, imposing term limits, limiting the Commerce Clause to its original meaning, limiting the power of federal regulations, requiring a supermajority to impose federal taxes and repealing the 16th Amendment, and giving the states the power to abrogate any federal law, regulation, or executive order . </P> <P> As of June 2017, CSG's application for a Convention of States has been passed in 12 states . </P> <P> A Super PAC called Single Subject Amendment registered with the Federal Election Commission on March 1, 2013 . It is actively engaged in an effort to call an Article V Convention for the limited purpose of proposing an amendment to provide every law enacted by Congress shall embrace only one subject which shall be clearly expressed in the bill's title . Forty - one state constitutions have a single subject provision but this provision is not in the United States Constitution . In April 2014, Florida became the first state to make an application for an Article V Convention to constitutionally prohibit unrelated riders in Congress . </P>

A proposed amendment passes congress with a simple majority. what happens next