Posted on 11/26/2010 1:29:20 PM PST by RightSideNews
Yet another unanticipated fastball has been hurled directly at the radical left’s destructive agenda. It is called the Repeal Amendment. Brainchild of Georgetown Constitutional Law Professor Randy Barnett, the proposal has gotten legs with the help of Florida attorney Marianne Moran, Executive Director of RepealAmendment.org.The proposal calls for a constitutional amendment that would allow the states, by a two-thirds majority vote, to repeal objectionable federal legislation and regulations. Virginia Representative Eric Cantor, slated to be Majority Leader in the upcoming Congress, has gotten behind the movement, as has Virginia’s governor, and lieutenant governor, leaders in the state legislature and Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Cantor articulates the justification well:
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The fourth sentence doesn’t mean jack to me. Maybe you can’t count sentences very well.
“The Dollar shall be equal in value to the weight of gold”
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I’d highly recommend for everyone’s reading this article re: our money system. The article reviews what the US Constitution says about our money system, and why it’s not WHAT backs money, but WHO controls the money supply that’s key.
Fallacy of Gold Backed Money
http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2010/01/fallacy-of-gold-backed-money_02.html
“People who support gold backed money do so mostly for the right reason – to keep the
QUANTITY OF MONEY UNDER CONTROL. There are, however, MANY
misrepresentations, half-truths, and self-serving reasons to promote gold either as a backing for
money or as a direct form of money itself...”
—snip—
If gold backed money actually worked, then those money systems would still be around today, but they are not. During the 1920s gold backed our money yet one of the largest credit bubbles in history was formed and ultimately popped regardless of the existence of a gold backed money system – the same has been repeated throughout history.
—snip—
When it comes to keeping the quantity of money under control the ideal system would be one
that allows the QUANTITY of money toincrease and todecrease in accordance with the reality
of the economy, the size of the population, and a multitude of other factors. Such a currency
would withstand the shock of war or natural disaster and neither produce extremes in PRICE
inflation or PRICE deflation.
There is simply no way to remove humans completely from the equation. This is the illusion of commodity backed money – it is just that, an illusion – it has never worked to actually keep the quantity of money under control, nor has any system ultimately passed the test of time.
Even if we had perfect economic models (not even close) and a computer controlled the quantity, the computer would have to be programmed by a human! Here’s the simple truth… What ultimately backs a country’s money is the RULE OF LAW, and
what ultimately backs the rule of law is a nation’s PEOPLE. Not its bankers, and rarely its
politicians.
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Interested in your thoughts.
That’s not how I interpreted it. It’s a state by state basis isn’t it? If california wants to render something null and void in california, they can do so with a 2/3rds majority vote of their own state legislature.
So who of us is correct?
Now I’m worried you are partly correct. How do they tally the votes? IF they count every state congressman’s vote individually across the country and strike down something for EVERY state with a 2/3rds majority, that won’t be fair. some states have more state congressvermin than others.
Agreed. As the Constitution and it's amendments are ignored now, why should I believe a new one wouldn't also be ignored?
Judges have to be reigned in some way.
The French knew what to do about royal abuse of power on the night of July 14, 1789.
Think of it as a Constitutional Amendment. Requires 2/3rds of the states to pass.
This is what this legislation is.
Wanna roll back Patriot Act? Requires 2/3rds of the states to roll it back.
Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. What I am really hoping for is states such as Alaska and Utah who are sitting on huge amounts of oil be allowed to drill if they want to regardless of what the EPA wants. There are so many states with so many resources that are unable access them because of such agencies. Without these and many other regulations and regulators I sincerely believe that this country could have another boom. Our resources can save us, if only we were allowed to use them.
BTW...Happy Thanksgiving!
Yea, like they are not already killing us here in California. I say do it. When California goes off the deep-end (precariously close as I type this), I'll move east south east.
Oh, wait. We do!
Can the Republicans in the House craft a new law, call it say, “Insurance Reform” (which is what we need - not ‘healthcare’ reform), whereby once passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law > would have it automatically replace/repeal the old law - without having to actually vote to repeal the old law?
Reason I say this, is that once you put a proposed law in front of everyone, then it can gather steam and momentum to actually have it replace the old one.
If we get to the point that 35 states are as insane as CA or MA we are sunk anyway.
As long as this follows the principles of a Constitutional Convention and is based on a majority of the STATES and not the population... well as for CA, NY, MA, Ill etc... screw ‘em.
yeah there is: Just elect a Governor and Leg. with the ‘balls’ enough to take on the Feds (including a stand-off) if necessary!
J.S.
REPUBLIC YES!... democracy NO!
Entirely correct.
democracy is nothing more than a rabble
However, as for the blue vs. red state proposition... you sure can’t prove it by the balance of the spinate. How is that happening? The Founders had a good idea for balance in the first place but some damn fools changed that.
Seems like this could be done with a Constitutional Convention. IT IS TIME.
Add to your list the 14th Amendment that allows Anchor Babies and make it retroactive!
Also 15,19 and 23.
Also Repeal all laws and amendments to 1890 : make laws repeal themselves after 3 years.This way only the laws that are really needed will be kept.
Also ,Repeal all laws and amendments to 1890 = limited government and no more problems.Make all laws have an expiration date of 3 years. too many laws is the problem. Make laws repeal themselves.
What does this thread have to do with Lepanto?
Here's your original question: What if california decides to repeal freedom of speech to keep people from criticizing al gore’s stupid ass global warming bullshit?
Now, let's count sentences:
1 Yet another unanticipated fastball has been hurled directly at the radical left’s destructive agenda.
2 It is called the Repeal Amendment.
3 Brainchild of Georgetown Constitutional Law Professor Randy Barnett, the proposal has gotten legs with the help of Florida attorney Marianne Moran, Executive Director of RepealAmendment.org.
4 The proposal calls for a constitutional amendment that would allow the states, by a two-thirds majority vote, to repeal objectionable federal legislation and regulations.
Answer to your question: nothing.
Three extra years at that age add some maturity/ life experience so 21 should be better than 18.
Actually 25 is the given age when a youth starts to mature mentally, though girls get there a few years earlier, so if we want to avoid emotional voters without much real life experience, 25 would be the better voting age. Nothing to do with fighting or dying.
18-year olds make the best soldiers and the worst drivers. They feel invincible and thus do things older minds would cringe at.
Perhaps the best way to analyze this would be to ask yourself if you would not mind being judged for a complex felony in a Superior Court of law by an 18-year old judge if he/she could be appointed to the bench that early and with only that much experience behind them.
This became very apparent in 1979 Iran when after the revolution, boys were allowed to vote in their earliest teens and make life and death decisions over others in those early ages.
More proof? Obama was elected by the youngest of our voters and least mature/educated (with some exceptions among Bush haters) many of whom were manipulated by trained Socialist/Radical operatives/ propagandists.
Our voters are amazingly naive as they have not come across the likes of Obama and his puppet masters. For those of us who have been involved in, confronted, politics in other countries, where people are naturally more skeptical of promises and authority, the readiness in America to believe the B.S. he threw at us - without defining anything but some undefined concept of “change” - which differed in his mind from ours. We heard what we wanted to hear and hoped we were right.
And could not bring any applicable life experience to bear to help assess WHAT Obama really was and planned to use against us. He was our first America hating “enemy within” of any consequence. Certainly in recent “post-Communism” times.
2/3rds is way, way too high!
Sheesh with 2/3rds we can call a constitutional convention, whats the point of such a vote?
Make it 1/3rd for the rights of the minority are essential, and the practicality for state legislators.
I think if 1/3 of the State legislators were to act on anything particularly on the abolition of any federal act that speaks far more strongly then a super majority of Congress.
All that being said passing an amendment to give states a direct path to repeal an act of congress compromises our cause for nullification of unconstitutional acts.
Am all for it.
Maybe God will give it some legs.
However, we have the basic script for the next several to at least 7+ years.
Tyranny will advance to a global tyranny worse than the world has ever seen or ever will see again.
I suspect any advances patriots make toward such an ammendment will be more or less milk sop to distract us while the oligarchy tightens more nooses elsewhere.
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