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To: Blood of Tyrants
Besides the states must still vote to accept the proposed amendments.

This is no longer the age of enlightenment.

This is the Age of Entitlement.

Better to try to elect leaders who will follow the old Constitution than expect that politicians in this day and age will meet together to create a better one. That ain't gonna happen.

25 posted on 07/18/2014 1:39:30 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: P-Marlowe
There are 99 houses in 50 state legislatures. Any leftist amendment would require only 13 of these legislative bodies from 99 to defeat ratification. In other words, three quarters of the state legislatures must ratify or 38 states. If 13 legislatures fail to ratify the amendment is defeated. Since ratification by legislatures requires both houses to consent, only 13/99 are required. That is very close to 13%.

If the Congress of the United States elects to have the ratification procedures conducted by conventions rather than legislatures, the method of selecting the delegates to those conventions would be chosen by the legislatures. If only 13 legislative bodies out of 99 object to the method chosen by the other body because it is considered to favor a leftist amendment, there is no ratification forthcoming from that state.

By either procedure the odds of a liberal amendment getting past so many conservative legislative bodies in so many states is both arithmetically and practically remote.

Finally, this is only the last line of defense, there are innumerable steps along the way which make a "runaway convention" virtually impossible and render the need for the states to fail to ratify very likely superfluous.


27 posted on 07/18/2014 1:48:29 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: P-Marlowe
Better to try to elect leaders who will follow the old Constitution than expect that politicians in this day and age will meet together to create a better one. That ain't gonna happen.

I'm willing to try, though. If they ignore the clearly stated amendments, then we'll try the ammo box.

30 posted on 07/18/2014 1:55:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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