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An untried process with an idealistic view...

Is that the high bar now for interpreting something that has been in the Constitution since its beginning?

Electing Senators was an "untried process" when it was proposed and ratified in 1913, and yet people didn't fear that.

Here are some other "untried processes" in the Constitution that maybe should be tried once or twice.

Article III Section 1: The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

Let's see Congress use its power to restructure the lower courts. There are too many rogue liberal judges out there who are overturning the will of the People if the People don't comply with the liberal agenda.

25th Amendment Section 3: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

The Vice-President can get the Congress to create an independent body of people who will sign a declaration that the President is incapable, and then the Vice-President can take over? So Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden could have conspired to create a body made up of newspaper editors and TV journalists to declare Obama ousted and replaced by Biden?

I'm just having fun with the Constitution...

-PJ

Your view is all well and good, but how do you propose to control a convention of certain differing goals, aims, subterfuge, scheming and lord knows what when we can't even control the election process in this country now? For the last three or four elections, probably more. Even our own GOP(e) is against us.

I am not against the idea of it; I just do not trust it can be successfully implemented, and I think the disastrous potentials are something that should be very, very carefully considered.

I most certainly dislike the glib assurances I've been getting from proponents with an air of “holier than thou - we gotta do something, even if it's wrong” attitudes because we are currently living under a tyrant.