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To: elcid1970
Uh, amending the Constitution requires a 2/3rds majority in Congress and ratification by 3/4ths of the states.

Of course it does, but we were speaking of states secession, so I only included the state's portion of amending the Constitution.

If you want to complete the civics lesson, there is also the means of a Constitutional Convention called by 2/3rds of the states.

46 posted on 06/27/2016 7:42:10 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Oh...states seceding from the Union. The last attempt resulted in four years of bloody civil war. Don’t know if we really want to go there again.

If one or more of the States wish to thumb their nose at Obama, they should refuse all Muslim migrants, period, by physical means if necessary. Will Obama send in the 82nd Airborne Div to enforce compliance? Don’t think so.

There are indeed two avenues to amending the Constitution. The second was used to repeal Prohibition, since there were several socially dry states that would have voted against ratifying the 21st Amendment.

I’m just trying to damp down a little of the panic I see here on FR, that thinks the 2nd Amendment or the Constitution can be eviscerated by a wave of the hand of either Barack Obama or Dianne Feinstein.

Furthermore, without even going nuclear trying to repeal the 2nd, why haven’t DiFi & Barky even come close to passing laws to create a national gun registry? They can’t go door to door without one.

Don’t forget DiFi has been a fanatical gungrabber since 1978 when her fag friend Harvey Milk was gunned down (given the murderer’s reduced sentence she should have sought to ban Twinkies instead). That’s nearly forty years ago and what does DiFi have to show for her antigun jihad? Press photos of her clutching an AK-47 while calling for its ban, that’s all.


48 posted on 06/27/2016 8:00:40 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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