Posted on 12/05/2016 2:21:39 AM PST by Jacquerie
Guys, I seriously need prayer. I took a fall out back about 45 min ago. Fell topsy turvy backwards over a bale of hay, konked my head on a shed door. (Minor no weirdness) Back in house, cleaned up, DO NOT want to miss tomorrow!
Do you suppose she thinks the U.S. Congress votes by secret ballot as well /sarc
The problem has been that everything has continually been “fair game” during any session of SCOTUS. The difference in an Article V convention is that the convention is not beholden to Congress or SCOTUS. Thus, congressional term limits become thinkable. And the institution of direct critique by the states of (at least the precedential value of) any SCOTUS decision could be given effect.I think the wiser course of action is to keep proposing and passing individual amendments to get where we want to go. The risk appears to be too great to throw it open to any and all amendments in an Article V given how moronic the majority of Americans obviously are.
The Article V convention is, granted, an addition to the ways the Constitution might be changed. But at least a mere one-fourth of the states (i.e., only thirteen states)retain the veto power overwould by default veto any amendments the convention proposed. I grant that the convention, if convened, would propose amendments. After all, what is the point of being in a convention to propose amendments and then not proposing any??But the default is that they will not be ratified. It takes action by the states to approve any of them.
. . . and that thought will motivate the convention to come up with good proposals.
You got it. Godspeed.
Good. No secret ballot. Thanks for clarifying.
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