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To: kabar

Then help your side win elections. It’s called democracy.


4 posted on 03/24/2010 5:40:10 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Thud

Elections can be too slow. In eight months, a lot of damage can be done. Even then, it is unlikely there will be enough Republican wins in the Senate to override Presidential vetoes. That means it will be 2013, and a lot more damage done before we have enough in the Senate and the WH to begin correcting the mistakes this Congress and Zero are making.

An Article V convention was DESIGNED specifically for situations like this — a tyranny of Congress over the wishes of the American people. It can be called at ANY time and is part of our system of checks and balances.

The only problem with Article V is that it did not anticipate the arrogance of Congress in refusing to call one. It should have allowed the States themselves to announce a convention without Congress’ say-so. There are ALREADY more than enough “applications” from the States to Congress to call a convention, even if you are talking about multiple calls on the same subject — apportionment, limiting taxation, and balanced budget all have more than enough State applications filed.


5 posted on 03/24/2010 6:07:02 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (Democrat: Someone who supports killing children, but protests executing convicted murderers.)
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To: Thud

The risk isn’t worth the reward. I prefer to keep the Constitution of our founders. We should use the normal process to amend it.


15 posted on 03/24/2010 9:14:13 PM PDT by kabar
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