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To: Homer_J_Simpson

"Voters Still Back War Referendum"

A constitutional amendment that would require a national referendum to go to war. I never heard of that.

3 posted on 03/08/2009 8:10:27 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)

To: 2banana

A constitutional amendment that would require a national referendum to go to war. I never heard of that.

Me neither. Interesting idea, if impractical.

4 posted on 03/08/2009 8:14:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: 2banana

"A constitutional amendment that would require a national referendum to go to war. I never heard of that."

The amendment never passed, of course, and we can see that as fears of war in Europe increased, support for it was already falling.

After Pearl Harbor, 12/7/41, the whole issue became moot, because now it was no longer a "foreign war."

7 posted on 03/08/2009 8:40:46 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)

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