[xm177e2]

There is a poll on his web page... how did you vote? What is the single most important Constitutional Amendmentment you can think of?

I hope this hasn't already been posted; if it was I didn't see it.

Note: The URL will expire at the end of today, and the new URL you will have to enter to find the page is here (but this one doesn't work yet)

[LizardQueen]

I'd probably vote for the Bricker - it would solve a lot of the other problems as well.

Interesting question...

LQ

[dead]

I have one question regarding any proposed Amendment to the Constitution –

Will it reduce the size and the influence of the government in the lives of the citizens?

If the answer is Yes, I’ll vote for it. If not, not.

[Phantom Lord]

Nealz Nuze is an absolute must read every morning.

[joesnuffy]

Term Limits....never more important than now....

[EggsAckley]

I'd vote to AMEND the fourteenth amendment, the one that makes any child born here an AUTOMATIC citizen. It was added to the Constitution after the Civil War as a means of naturalizing the newly freed slaves. It is archaic and devastating to our nation now, as it allows a sleazy "in" for illegals.

[jwalsh07]

Boortz has myopic vision. A piss poor thinker who doesn't have a clue about the expansion of federal government that will ensue when civil unions and/or homosexual "marriage" becomes the law of the land.

And by the way the first amendment I would put in the Constitution would be:

Unborn babies are persons.

Of course Boortz would never put that on his list.

[Publius]

Our founding fathers didn't put that in the original because they couldn't think in terms of elected officials staging raids on the taxpayers funds to the extent that they do today.

Mr. Boortz is an ignoramus. The 27th Amendment was one of 12 amendments proposed by Madison immediately after ratification of the Constitution. Ten of those amendments made it into the Constitution immediately, and we know them as the Bill of Rights.

One of those original 12 gathered state ratifications slowly over time. Generations would go by without a new ratification, then someone would notice the amendment and push a state to ratify. In the Eighties, a Texas state legislator noticed it and helped push it over the three-fourths limit in 1992. That was the 27th Amendment, and it took over 200 years to ratify.

Neil should do his homework.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Thanks for the post.

...The last basically said that the congress couldn't raise its own pay without an intervening election. Now there was a Constitutional amendment that recognized the essential truth about today's breed of politicians. Our founding fathers didn't put that in the original because they couldn't think in terms of elected officials staging raids on the taxpayers funds to the extent that they do today...

Actually, that amendment was one of the first ones, it simply had no expiration attached and it took unusually long to ratify.

[prion]

Americans aren't going to get behind this gay marriage thing either.

I'm not so sure. I was against an amendment, for the reasons he states -- you don't tinker with the Constitution if you can possibly avoid it. But then this stuff in California happened -- the people charged with upholding the law are using their powers to ignore it. I've changed my mind.

I'm not even all that passionate an opponent of gay marriage, but I can't think of any other way to prevent 'public servants' from making up the law.

[Homer1]

repeal the 8th amendment!

[R. Scott]

I would like to see amendments that would strengthen the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th amendments as well as repeal the 17th amendment.

[Dr.Deth]

How about a Constitutional amendment to protect your property against government seizure without due process?

That would be awesome. We could call it the 4th Amendment.

Personally, I say repeal 16, 17 and 19 and everything else takes cares of itself.

[HAL9000]

I'd like to see a list of all of the proposed constitutional amendments out there. The Dems are starting to push for the aboliton of the electoral college, for instance.

Overall, we may be better off with no more amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

[theFIRMbss]

>First on my list is an amendment to repeal an amendment

A Freeper once said
every few years we should toss
all amendments, and

if any were good,
activists should justify
them for the new scene...

[steve-b]

Our founding fathers (the politically correct term is now "framers") felt that in times of peace 90% of all government should emanate from state and local levels, and only 5% from the federal level.

The remaining 5% would emanate from a penumbra, or something.

[bassmaner]

How about an amendment making it easier for legislatures to remove activist judges from the bench?

[freeeee]

You people want to pass a constitutional amendment, when the ones we already have are routinely ignored?

Sounds good! I think I'll go change the headlight on the dead car in my backyard.

[cksharks]

To get rid of talk radio hosts.

[Defiant]

We need a bunch of amendments. Here are some that are in order:

The constitution is to be interpreted strictly, in accord with the original intent of the framers. (This one fixes a bunch of mistakes all by itself)

No automatic citizenship for persons born here, if they are here illegally.

No incorporation of the bill of rights to the states.

Spell out that "no establishment" of religion does not mean separation of church and state, and that the first amendment applies to Congress, not the states.

Spell out limits to the interstate commerce clause.

Limit taxation

Make it easier to get rid of law-making judges. Institute a recall procedure for them that is not common, but not impossible either. That will help keep them in check.

Spell out in even greater detail that the 2nd amendment does in fact give the people the right to keep and bear arms, and they don't have to be in a militia.

Affirm the existence of the 9th and 10 amendments.

That's a start. After 15 or 20 years of Republican majority rule, perhaps we can make a good start on these goals. Think incrementally, the way the leftists did from the 1930s on.

[Kherghan]

I'd Vote to repeal the 17th and the 16th amendment, before the 16th, there were no Income Taxes