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To: curth

A bill to repeal the 22nd Amendment has been introduced in every Congress for many years now, even back to, and probably prior to, Clinton’s terms.


8 posted on 01/15/2009 11:13:34 AM PST by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: Tatze

“The theory behind the 22nd Amendment is that modern day presidents exercise too much power and authority to be allowed access to it for very long.”

But the United States is first and foremost about “individual freedom”, which necessitates limits on government power. But to a liberal there is no such thing as “too much power”. That explains the knee jerk hostility of the left to the rights of states. We have to maintain the powers reserved for states to protect us from mob rule.

This looks like we may see an attack on the requirementf of a 2/3 state majority to amend the Constitution. We have already seen blatant disregard for the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and at least verbal assaults on the electoral college in presidential elections.


68 posted on 01/15/2009 1:07:46 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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