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To: americanophile
...it also has to pass with the 2/3 of the House/Senate. Fat chance.

Not so. To wit:

"The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures."

From post #3 by Star Traveler

123 posted on 03/22/2010 9:56:24 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Yes, we’ll we’ve never used that process before.


124 posted on 03/22/2010 10:03:18 PM PDT by americanophile (DeMint/Ryan '12)
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