This may end up as an Article V Convention thread. Trump has called for Congress to pass the one amendment that it would never consider passing on its own.
[ This may end up as an Article V Convention thread. Trump has called for Congress to pass the one amendment that it would never consider passing on its own. ]
I could see Trump asking congress for it, then congress either drags their feet or outright rejects them, so Trump uses his bully pulpit to go to the people / states and go over the heads of congress.
At this point I am for an amendment completely deconstructing the federal government.
Easy to do.
Just adopt the same language as found in the Twenty Second Amendment.
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Section 1.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,
and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President,
for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President
shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President
when this article was proposed by the Congress,
and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President,
or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative
from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
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