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To: Hostage
While these are admirable amendments that I would support, their implementation depends solely on the good will and honor of the people.

We have an Article 2 Section 1 in the Constitution. Look how well that is enforced. Do we still have a Department of Education? Where is that in the Constitution?

18 posted on 04/25/2017 5:10:11 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: wintertime
So now you are admitting that there is a way to write amendments that can't be thwarted.

There are two more proposed amendments that are written in such a way that no federal entity can subvert.

It's all about the way they are written, about writing them from a perspective that cannot be denied.

That proposed amendment XXVIII above cannot be ignored or denied by any branch or organ of federal government because of the way it is written.

Now because you are aware that it is possible to write amendments that cannot be ignored, denied, thwarted, try as an exercise to write an amendment that strengthens the original intent of Article 2, Section 1 which is copied here:

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

The original meaning and intent of the passage above from Article 2, Section 1 originated in a communication by John Jay to General George Washington. Trackback and study that history. It boils down to ensuring, as best as can be ensured, the qualities of LOYALTY and ALLEGIANCE. Then go ahead and try to draft something that strengthens that meaning and intent.

19 posted on 04/25/2017 8:20:25 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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