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To: demshateGod

[ That would be awesome, until it gets overturned by SCOTUS. COS is a nice idea, but we’d better be prepared to use physical force to keep it in tact. Which will essentially be nullification, which we could just do without spending time and money on COS. ]

COS is a viable exit ramp from the road to the cliff we are on right now. SCOTUS cannot over turn a Term Limit if it is ratified, they can only “Interpret it” which in the case of Term Limits is pretty Cut and Dried, if they try to mess with something like it may bring the phrase: “hung Jury” to mean something different.

Any COS must use clean simple plain language in any thing it proposes before sending it off to 3/4 for retification. Otherwise you are right that the SCOTUS may interpret it weirdly. The simpler and more plain the better. Amendments should not be written for the Lawyering class, but in plain language for the ones who consent to be goverened.


15 posted on 07/01/2014 10:49:19 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: GraceG
COS is a great idea but for the fact that, as Mark Levin states, we are living in a post-Constitutional era. How can those wielding unConstitutional powers right now be constrained by Constitutional Amendments in the future? It's the one thing Levin never explains because the reason is that the evil Powers That Be simply will not be constrained. They are using powers that do not exist, completely unopposed by our Representatives, who are part of the problem.

That is not to say it shouldn't be done, but the question is "Who will enforce it?"

21 posted on 07/01/2014 12:45:06 PM PDT by Squeako (The radicals are the wolves. The moderates are the wolves in sheep's clothing.)
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