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To: pabianice
This lowers the bar to passing a constitutional amendment. A very bad idea.

How so? It itself is a constitutional amendment. But it would empower the states by a supermajority only to veto regular congress-passed laws, not constitutional provisions.

11 posted on 09/16/2010 1:17:55 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

An amendment requires 2/3 of each house plus 3/4 of the states. A very high bar.


16 posted on 09/16/2010 6:36:34 PM PDT by pabianice
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