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I have researched this topic! All you need to know is the 18th and 21st Amendment. We prohibited the sale of alcohol and then repealed the Amendment. Are you so sure that if brought up today, the Second Amendment would survive unscathed? If you look at the popularity of the First Amendment, we couldn't even read the Bible in public due to hate speech laws. We have a 4th Amendment now and let me just say,..."NSA". I mean, if you open a convention like you and Levin,( And believe me, I practically worship the guy), there will be NO phrase untouched by the idiot moron fascists now in power. I challenge you to even find a modern law that is throttled back by Constitutional principle. There is a list of permitted actions the Feds can take and a list of forbidden actions the Feds can do, but they are constantly doing whatever the hell they want, ObamaCare being the latest. Where does it say they can force my company to drop my insurance I bargained for and substitute an inferior product for a higher price? If Texas tried to force that, they would get crucified, but since we have Ca, Ma, NY, Co and others, I'm forced into a sort of slavery and charged a fine if I don't. The SCOTUS and all below found it permitted some how. My biggest fear is #2 would be modified or done away with. That is the Amendment that protects the other 9.

To allow people today to have this much power is the same as giving a 4 year old a hair trigger .45 Colt and expecting nothing bad to happen.

The idea is an interesting one and has been discussed for much of my 62 years of life, but to expect a good outcome is just naive, IMO.

If limits were put into the legislation to ONLY discuss one topic and if things were added to modify something expressly spoken about in the existing Constitution, I think you would be astounded at how other topics would be injected. I'm not saying it should NEVER be allowed because that is the provided mechanism we have, But the level of morals and education we have today almost insures a tragedy.

Much of my fear comes from knowing the difference between a democracy and a republic. We passed just laws and live by those laws in a republic. A democracy is just mob rule. Go back and watch some file film of the "Occupy" movement and tell me you want their opinion on even what time of day it is. As an example, sodomy has been illegal everywhere for thousands of years. Anyone accepting sodomy has been destroyed and erased. Today, over 60% want acceptance of sodomy and are willing to put you into reeducation camps as they crow about their tolerance. I'm absolutely sure sodomy would be ensconced into law as a protected species if the opportunity arises. As it sits now, we could vote out the sodomites if we chose to. If it were in law, there would be no chance and YOU would end up as a law breaker instead of a good citizen.