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To: GraceG
All constitutional amendments tell the government what is can and cannot do to the citizens...

Actually, there's only one thing in all the Constitution that allows the federal government to interfere with an individual: the 13th Amendment which forbids a person to own a slave.

Again, the wording of these proposed amendments are crucial. They must simply forbid the federal government from interefering with these area we call "social" issues (marriage, abortion, etc.). Giving them more legitimate power via an amendment (vs. Roe v. Wade which is simply an unconstitutional SCOTUS decision that should be nullified by the states), especially in these "social" areas would be a disastrous mistake. The government needs to be shrunk not made more powerful.

You may agree, but it was hard to tell from your answer.

18 posted on 03/17/2014 7:08:38 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
They must simply forbid the federal government from interefering with these area we call "social" issues (marriage, abortion, etc.).

None of the proposals I have seen (such as in Mark Levin's book) do anything like what you expect above. Most of the proposals are structural changes that return more power to the states, in keeping with the defined scope of the convention.

35 posted on 03/18/2014 1:29:56 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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