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To: Hostage
I never said you were obligated to answer my question.

My point in asking these questions is to demonstrate that there are no answers. Nothing in the process is entirely agreed upon or set in stone. If it were to happen,the entire procedure would be debated by the power brokers of the two parties in the federal government and each individual state and then argued in court before partial judges. Those who would determine how it would move forward are the same people who are currently screwing us at every turn and interpreting the Constitution to mean whatever fits their agenda.

The Constitution itself is an incredible document and serves as a recipe for liberty. The problem is that the vast majority of diners don't care if they are served liberty or bulls**t.

31 posted on 07/31/2013 11:09:19 AM PDT by nitzy (You can avoid reality but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.)
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To: nitzy

There’s already precedent.

Read starting on page 8:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42592.pdf

NARA and OFR are implicitly involved:

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/

***THE PROCESS HAS PRECEDENTS***

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Constitution

Madison outlined his plan in letters that (1) State legislatures each send delegates, not the Articles Congress. (2) Convention reaches agreement with signatures from every state. (3) The Articles Congress approves forwarding it to the state legislatures. (4) The state legislatures independently call one-time conventions to ratify, selecting delegates by each state’s various rules of suffrage. The Convention was to be “merely advisory” to the people voting in each state.

Step 4 in the preceding in CAPS:

THE STATE LEGISLATURES INDEPENDENTLY CALL ONE-TIME CONVENTIONS TO RATIFY, SELECTING DELEGATES BY EACH STATE’S ***RULES OF SUFFRAGE***.

In other words the voters choose delegates to the states convention UNLESS Congress has selected state legislatures to vote to ratify.

I have found materials in the past quite easily and I found the above linked materials in less than 5 minutes using an internet search. What’s your excuse?

The reason I am challenging you on this is because there is no excuse for you not to able to find the process for state conventions in proposing and ratifying amendments to the US Constitution.


33 posted on 07/31/2013 11:50:42 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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