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To: Sirius Lee

Our current constitution is our second constitution, the Articles of Confederation was our first.

And of course we adopted our second and current constitution in an unconstitutional way, since the Articles of Confederation required unanimous consent of the states to amend it.

The constitution was adopted after only 9 of 13 states approved it.

So there is precedent...


14 posted on 08/29/2014 6:01:25 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: ChronicMA

NH broke from MA, W, VA broke from VA, curious as to what arguments they used to form their new state


16 posted on 08/29/2014 6:48:49 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: ChronicMA

“And of course we adopted our second and current constitution in an unconstitutional way, since the Articles of Confederation required unanimous consent of the states to amend it.”

They didn’t amend it, they repealed and replaced it.

Good thing, too, the US was falling apart.


34 posted on 08/29/2014 11:50:30 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: ChronicMA

as Mao said, “power comes out of the end of a gun barrel”............this is why the lefties want to take our guns!!!

..........there will come a time not too far down the road where enough armed people are going to hit the street and say “to hell with the Constitution, we are no longer going to tolerate 500 agencies regulating our lives and confiscating our wages”. That’s the point I think, not the Constitution. AND, it is way past time to amend it!


61 posted on 08/30/2014 12:58:19 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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