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To: Senior Chief

Nope, not even that: 2/3 majorities of both houses of Congress need ratification by 3/4 of the several states to change the Constitution.


24 posted on 07/20/2010 3:26:09 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

You got me. Mea Culpa...The only thought on my mind at the time of reading, assuming that the constitutional amendment had already passed through congress, which indeed does require a super-majority, is that it needed to be ratified by the states and that in order to do that, it also required a (more than) super-majority. Don’t knwo why I identified 2/3 vice 3/4 except that I must be getting mushy in the brain. As indicated by another poster, I am an old fart!


62 posted on 07/21/2010 5:45:00 AM PDT by Senior Chief (Here I am, right where I left myself.)
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