Backers of a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution might consider the following strategy:
A. seeking support for such an amendment through approval by at least 34 state conventions, as almost occurred in the 1980s.
B. mounting a federal court case and seeking appeals to the Supreme Court.
C. pursuing approval of an amendment in the House and Senate, to then be sent to state legislatures.
D. collecting signatures to mount the proposal as a national referendum.