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To: Publius
Madison even doubts the ability of a convention to correct the problems within a constitution if the people’s passions are raised to fever pitch. Is he right or wrong on this issue, and why?

Before I answer the question posed above let me say that I think the legislature still has all the powers it ever had. All that is lacking is a legislature with enough members who actually understand the Constitution, their oaths of office, and who have the intestinal fortitude to simply exercise those powers.

Now to the question.

I think Madison is wrong here but must admit that I GREATLY fear a convention that is not strictly limited as to the issues it may address. I must also admit that I do not know just how the limits imposed on any such convention could be EFFECTIVELY enforced in practice.

4 posted on 09/16/2010 9:54:12 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Bigun

If you go to Post #2 and click on the link to Federalist #43, you’ll find an essay at the end that lays out all the angles on a Convention for Proposing Amendments.


5 posted on 09/16/2010 10:51:36 AM PDT by Publius (The government only knows how to turn gold into lead.)
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