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To: CriticalJ
1. Who would the delegates be, and how would they be selected?

2. Who would set the agenda?

3. What would the scope of the convention be?

No less than former Chief Justice Warren Burger has said, "I have also repeatedly given my opinion that there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the convention would obey."

Of course, maybe we could have two conventions: one for "us", one for "them." That, by definition, is "civil war."

(Which, ironically, may end up being our only option.)

55 posted on 07/03/2012 3:22:55 PM PDT by LaybackLenny (Principles aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. I'm voting Romney. God help me.)
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To: LaybackLenny

“1. Who would the delegates be, and how would they be selected?
2. Who would set the agenda?
3. What would the scope of the convention be?”

I don’t know. As stated by others, it would have to be tightly defined in order to restore and/or protect the constitution.

“Of course, maybe we could have two conventions: one for ‘us’, one for ‘them.’ That, by definition, is ‘civil war.’

(Which, ironically, may end up being our only option.)”

It seems that way sometimes.


62 posted on 07/03/2012 6:58:14 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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