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To: Brooklyn Attitude

First get your terminology right! An Article V convention IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION! It’s a Constitutional means to bypass Congress to get amendments proposed. IT IS IN THE CONSTITUTION!! It’s a means for the States to get around recalcitrant Congress in proposing amendments that’s all it is. If you think an Article V Convention of States is a danger to the Constitution has Congress shown to be any less so? The ERA amendment was one of the stupider and dangerous to the Constitution actions done by an amendment proposing Congress. We barely dodged that one! To say nothing of what the 17th & 16th amendments did to our governing structure, again proposed by Congress. Congress has not been the best guardian.


114 posted on 09/18/2022 11:15:22 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

“First get your terminology right! An Article V convention IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION!”

Antonin Scalia called it a Constitutional Convention so that’s good enough for me. FYI, having to resort to complaining about commonly used terminology is a sure sign you’ve lost an argument.


115 posted on 09/18/2022 11:51:06 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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