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To: Lmo56

Constitutional Convention? Kiss the Second Amendment goodbye. They’d trash the First Amendment too.


71 posted on 03/23/2010 11:27:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ('...the first day of spring...otherwise known to Al Gore as proof of global warming'. - Bill Clinton)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
There is no need for a constitutional convention. There is a way to circumvent congress though. 2/3 of the state legislators can vote for a new amendment, or nullify an old one. If the state legislators opt not to vote they can put the issue up as a state referendum, and let the people of the individual states vote. They tried to do this with the (ERA) Equal Rights Amendment, in the 70’s. It felled.
74 posted on 03/23/2010 11:43:06 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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