To: SeattleBruce; Red Dog #1
Amen! Repeal the 17th and youll sink [sic] the Federal Government shrink. That would require a Con Con - is it time to broach that topic?
No, it wouldn't, any more than the repeal of prohibition required a constitutional convention.
68 posted on
11/04/2010 3:57:29 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan; Red Dog #1
Sorry, you’re right. It would take 2/3rds vote of both Houses of Congress to propose such a repeal (meaning 67 Senators), ‘and ratified by three-fourths of the states or by three-fourths of conventions thereof, the method of ratification being determined by Congress at the time of proposal.’
Now are we talking about the 17th - direct election of Senators or the 16th - the federal income tax amendment?
71 posted on
11/04/2010 5:53:54 PM PDT by
SeattleBruce
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