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To: Graewoulf

Well if this is a States convention Boehner and McConnell don’t have a say in it!!! If the Washington DC crowed call the Convention then they get to vote!!!


66 posted on 04/23/2014 10:10:52 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe
The only role Congress has in an Amendments Convention is to set the time and place once two-thirds of the states request it. That role is purely ministerial, and Congress has no discretion in the matter. Read Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #85.
67 posted on 04/23/2014 10:15:08 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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