How to amend the us constitution in steps.

An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.

a. the Enlightenment

The timespan can be located around 1701 , until 1789, for most scholars, and the Napoleonic wars in the beginning of 1800's as the end of it

The movement also called Siècle des Lumières resulted from the writings of authors like Diderot, Voltaire , Robespierre, and other French intellectuals mainly who advocated for a more equalitarian society in the midst of authoritarian French rules.

The scarcity of resources and not satisfying basic human needs lead this thinkers to strongly rise against tirany, religious oppresion and any kind of hindernace in the pursue of a new model of society that wanted to renovate the legacy from the Middle Ages.

The Enlightenment paved the way for the French Revolution that took place in the middle of Europe where Napoleon emerged as a revolutionare, who after some years serving for France interest began expanding this ideas to other nations. Initially people who heard the ideas from the Englightment welcomed this notions. The transformation of the socio political world in Europe was to be reshaped as many  other states preferred the order present in the old regimes and did everythingi to restore the status quo.