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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to identify a scenario whereby the following (or a functionally similar) amendment becomes a part of the United States Constitution:

Section 1

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every fourth year, unless the House be sooner dissolved.

Section 2

All Bills for raising Revenue, to borrow Money on the credit of the United States, or for the Appropriation of Money shall originate in the House of Representatives. Every such Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives shall be presented to the Senate of the United States. The Senate shall approve the Bill or return it, with its Recommendations, to the House of Representatives, who shall enter the Recommendations at large on their Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration the House of Representatives again passes the Bill by a Vote determined by Yeas and Nays, with the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill entered on the Journal, it shall be presented to the President of the United States in like Manner as if it had passed the Senate.

Any other Bill, Order, or Resolution passed by the House of Representatives in two successive sessions, with at least one year having elapsed between the dates on which it passed the House of Representatives, and rejected by the Senate in each of those sessions shall, on its rejection for the second time by the Senate, be presented to the President in like Manner as if it had passed the Senate.

If any Bill, Order, or Resolution originating in the House of Representatives shall not be approved, returned, or disapproved by the Senate within thirty Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to it, the Same shall be deemed to have been passed by both Houses and shall be presented to the President in like Manner as if the Senate had acted upon it.

Section 3

The President may summon, prorogue, and dissolve Congress.

Section 4

The executive Power vested in the President shall be exercised on the advice of the principal Officers of the executive Departments and any other members of his Cabinet, all of whom shall be Members of either House appointed by him upon nomination by the House of Representatives and who shall hold their respective Offices at his discretion while they retain the confidence of that House.

Section 5

Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bonus Challenge: Identify a title other than "prime minister" for the leading member of the Cabinet.
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