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To: Hostage

“It is not a constitutional convention (CC).”

Oh, my bad. I should read an article some time.


32 posted on 07/31/2013 11:37:32 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: Noamie

It’s a forgivable mistake because so many mischaracterize the process as rewriting the entire US Constitution and refer to it as a Constitutional Convention. And I am sure many others will continue to call it a CC, even those who are prominent in media and politics.

But it is correctly labeled as a convention to propose amendments.

I suppose absurdly that a state or a faction inside a state could propose an amendment to repeal nearly all the US Constitution except for the amendments that such a faction would propose, such as a communist manifesto amendment or some other absurdity. But this absurdity example would have zero chance of ever getting the time of day of anyone serious.

The phrase CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION scares some people whereas LIMITED CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AMENDMENTS is more comforting.


35 posted on 07/31/2013 12:01:11 PM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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