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To: conservativegramma

You were saying — “They are attempting a constitutional amendment regarding vetting presidential candidates.”

That’s a much more difficult process to go through. It would require 2/3 of the Congress to approve it, first, before it could even be sent out to the states to ratify. And then it would take 3/4 of the states to ratify it. Furthermore, most of these amendments are given about a 7 year span of time for approval, and it could take all 7 years to get there, if at all.

In addition to taking 2/3 of the Congress to approve such an Amendment to the Constitution, Congress, itself, would be the one to put forth the “wording” of such an Amendment. I don’t see Congress working against its own “boy” Obama...

On the other hand, what you see here, in this thread, is very much easier to do and only requires a *state* to do it, and not the Democrat Congress and not 2/3 of them and not 3/4 of all the states in the United States.

I would go the route of these individual states, because it’s possible to get it done in maybe one or two sessions of the legislatures of those states...


35 posted on 01/28/2009 9:04:51 AM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler
That’s a much more difficult process to go through. It would require 2/3 of the Congress to approve it, first, before it could even be sent out to the states to ratify. And then it would take 3/4 of the states to ratify it.

Yep, but well worth the effort. If everyone had your negativity we wouldn't have ANY amendments now would we????

43 posted on 01/28/2009 9:38:10 AM PST by conservativegramma
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