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To: pissant

Should Congress refuse to vote this out to the states there is an alternative. If 2/3 of the State legislatures pass a resolution to call a Constitutional Convention, Congress is required by Article V of the Constitution to set a date and place for it. Anything passed by that convention goes to the states as if it had been passed by Congress, at which point adoption by 3/4 of the states makes it part of the Constitution.


2 posted on 05/21/2008 9:46:26 AM PDT by RonF
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To: RonF

Constitutional conventions are the worst possible solution. The last thing I want is a bunch of politicians with open season on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 10th amendments.


16 posted on 05/21/2008 9:56:37 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in - Michael Corleone)
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