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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I believe that would require an Amendment to the Constitution. Good luck with that, Barry. It’d be your first defeat.

To Amend the Constitution, two ways are possible...

1. Congress proposes amendments.

Both houses of Congress would have to approve by two-thirds , a resolution calling for the amendment. The resolution does not require the President’s signature. To become effective, the proposed amendment must then be “ratified” (approved) by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. Congress usually sets a time limit of seven years for ratification by the states.

2. The states propose amendments.

The legislatures of two-thirds of the states vote to call for a convention of the States, at which constitutional amendments can be proposed. Amendments proposed by the convention would, again, require ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.


18 posted on 05/09/2008 9:58:47 PM PDT by papasmurf (Unless I post a link to a resource, what I post is opinion, regardless of how I spin it.)
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To: papasmurf
I believe that would require an Amendment to the Constitution.

That's making the assumption that our courts would strike such a law down. Not a given, IMO.

It is unconstitutional for unelected bureaucrats (IRS as an example) to write "regulations" that have the power to take your freedom or property. Yet that is happening now.

24 posted on 05/10/2008 7:04:51 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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