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To: KantianBurke; All
Question to all:

Is a Constitutional Amendment voted on by all the people in a Major election or submitted as a process within the Congress?

If it can be offered nation wide on the same ballot as the Presidential election, several good things could happen. Think of the possibilities:

#1 People are mostly kind of conservative and this gay marriage issue will bring a lot of non voters out to vote in mass in a conservative fashion.

#2 President Bush would benefit as would most local conservative candidates.

#3 Local issues that need conservatives to pass also benefit.

A MAJOR WIN WIN WIN on every level here as I see it if an Amendment could be offered to the public on ballot. (Only if...)

85 posted on 02/18/2004 12:07:24 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
Nope. Correct me if I'm off but a consititutional amendment has to pass both houses of Congress by 2/3's majorities and pass a similar number of state legislatures. The public has no role if I recall other than voting the bums out if they're against its passage. Someone doublecheck?
86 posted on 02/18/2004 12:11:41 PM PST by KantianBurke (Principles, not blind loyalty)
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To: A CA Guy
People will have to vote on the ammendment. It's OUR Constitution.
People are willing to be tolerant at a distance. They're not tolerant when it's rubbed in their face and they're given the finger.

NOTICE ALL......

A newly arrived Republican appointee has pulled references to sexual orientation discrimination off an agency Internet site where government employees can learn about their rights in the workplace. (Washington post.)

90 posted on 02/18/2004 12:23:47 PM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: A CA Guy
The Bogus Homosexual Marriages in SF is a state issue.

However, congress has the option to "override" any federal judical ruling. It's delineated in the United States Constituion: Article 3, Section 2, Cluase 2:

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20031006-085845-5892r.html

Congress rarely uses this excption though..............

118 posted on 02/18/2004 9:07:17 PM PST by TeleStraightShooter (Kerry plans to apply post-Vietnam policy to Iraq: Skedaddle & let the Syrian Batthists take over)
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