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To: MrB

I believe that that is what they are talking about. There are only 2 more state legislatures to ratify this.


15 posted on 12/12/2008 12:09:13 PM PST by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: murron
There are only 2 more state legislatures to ratify this.

It doesn't ratify anything. All it would do is create a convention to propose amendments. Any amendment proposed still requires two-thirds of both houses of Congress to approve and THEN requires ratification by 38 state legislatures.

23 posted on 12/12/2008 12:13:44 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: murron

As someone else mentioned, (and I wasn’t clear on)

it takes 3/4 of the state legislatures’ approval for ratification of anything they do.

And the fedgov won’t be able to do the same thing they did with the 13th,14th & 15th - forcing ratification by the southern states.


30 posted on 12/12/2008 12:19:35 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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