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He Got a Bad Grade. So, He Got the Constitution Amended. Now He's Getting the Credit He Deserves.
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| MAR 13, 2017
| MATT LARGEY
Posted on 03/15/2017 7:28:05 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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Slacker
To: Mean Daddy
Excellent article, thanks for posting.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:39:36 PM PDT
by
JayGalt
To: Mean Daddy
Lol. Enjoyed the article very much.
To: 1010RD; AllAmericanGirl44; Amagi; aragorn; Art in Idaho; Arthur McGowan; Arthur Wildfire! March; ...
Technically, this is
not an article about a Convention of States for proposing amendments to the Constitution. But in various Article V threads, versions of this fascinating story come up. This is the first time I've seen the entire story in print, and it's an object lesson.
Madison proposed 17 amendments as his Bill of Rights project. Congress reduced those 17 to 12. A good 10 of them were slam-dunked through the ratification process. This particular amendment proposal, known at the time as "Madison's Salary Grab Amendment," languished for two centuries. This is the story of how it was finally ratified.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:45:31 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
To: Mean Daddy
“Sharon was blown away. And in that moment, she felt redeemed.”
That really isn’t the message she should have received.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:46:06 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Mean Daddy
From the story:
Many people have said you never know what kind of effect you're going to have on other people and on the world. And now I'm in my 70s, Ive come to believe that's very, very true. And this is when it really hit me because I thought to myself, You have, just by making this fellow a grade he didn't like, affected the U.S. Constitution more than any of your fellow professors ever thought about it and how ironic is that?
This lady has convinced herself that she was the butterfly that started the hurricane. Never mind all the work her "mediocre" student did to write research a paper and to revive a forgotten amendment. She was the prime mover cuz someone else gave a damn about the constitution.
That's the hubris of academia for you!
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:46:25 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Mean Daddy
What a great story and a testament as to the power of a single citizen.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:47:42 PM PDT
by
abigkahuna
(How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
To: Mean Daddy
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:52:21 PM PDT
by
barmag25
To: Publius
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:52:28 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: Mean Daddy
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:54:20 PM PDT
by
posterchild
(Treade a worme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne.)
To: ifinnegan
Come on. You can’t expect anyone on the faculty at UT Austin to know anything about the Constitution. It would probably be easier to find someone who had memorized Mao’s Little Red Book than someone who was a Constitutional Scholar.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:54:34 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Repeal The 17th
As I recall, there are a few other amendment proposals that passed both Houses of Congress by the necessary two thirds margin and still sit out there awaiting ratification like the 27th Amendment did.
One was the Titles of Nobility Amendment. If that were ratified, Rudy Giuliani would have to renounce his British knighthood, given for getting MI-5 up to speed after 9/11, or renounce his American citizenship.
Another was an amendment to preserve slavery in the states in which it already existed, proposed to keep the South in the Union in the early days of the Civil War. The 13th Amendment superseded that.
There is the Child Labor Amendment, superseded when Congress and the Supreme Court decided that federal and state governments could legislate working conditions during the New Deal.
There is also another Madison amendment from the Bill of Rights project sitting out there too.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:00:06 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
To: ifinnegan
I’m guessing she is a liberal. Their thought processes are not like ours.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:12:42 PM PDT
by
Kellis91789
(We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
To: Mean Daddy
The article left out the role a democrat controlled congress played in getting this ratified. The no warning, late night, voice vote to raise their own pay back in the late 80’s or early 90’s fueled the outrage that pushed many states to vote on this.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:19:26 PM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
To: PAR35
So a PHD who gave a guy a “C” grade on a paper he eventually got an “A+” on wonders why she can’t get a job.
Got it.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:21:08 PM PDT
by
PeteyBoy
(The wall. Build it and they won't come.)
To: Mean Daddy
Good article. I knew a little about the 27th amendment, but this filled in a lot of gaps.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:32:48 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
To: Mean Daddy
Awesome story. Thanks for posting it.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:38:54 PM PDT
by
unlearner
(So much winning !!! It's Trumptastic!)
To: Mean Daddy
Mommy, what’s “The Constitution???”
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:45:45 PM PDT
by
PGR88
(The)
To: Mean Daddy
There are some other ‘orphan’ amendments from back then. My favorite one states something like “the average Congressional district could not exceed 50,000 people” (rather than the 750,000 we’re up to now). That would mean 6,600 members in the House of Representatives. Try being a lobbyist when you need 3,300 people to win a vote. In other words, the districts would be both small enough so that Representatives could pretty much know every politically active person in their district, and would be so numerous that they would be ‘unmanageable’ by party leadership - in other words, they’d really REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
I’d love to see it approved, along with crappy pay and term limits...make Congress part time, and have them live in dorms.
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posted on
03/15/2017 9:01:19 PM PDT
by
BobL
(In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
To: BradyLS
Heh - she didn’t even grade his paper - a student aide gave him the “C”. She “looked at” the paper (glanced?) and didn’t change anything - she didn’t DO anything. I hope she never taught again.
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posted on
03/15/2017 9:07:02 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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