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To: Hostage
"Yeah? Like what? Name one thing!"

The procedure for running the convention. Who gets seated in the event of conflicting state claims to representation. The agenda. The amedments which will be offered. Who determines whether a proposed amendment got 3/4's of state support if the majority says it did? The Supreme Court? I don't know that I trust them. When the stakes are this high there would be plenty of "solid conservatives" who would be bought off.

53 posted on 02/07/2014 10:19:46 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

You are seriously off the rails.


56 posted on 02/07/2014 10:21:56 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: circlecity
It goes back to the states for ratification, the same as any other amendment.

You need to do some research.

/johnny

57 posted on 02/07/2014 10:23:29 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: circlecity

The National Archives is the administrator for Constitutional amendments. The process with them is well-defined.

Many states have even very recently submitted proposed Constitutional Amendments. This is not at all an unknown process.

What is different is to call a convention for proposing amendments where all the states work together to sort out which proposals will garner 2/3s support.

But the process of submitting them is the same. Congress gets to do only one thing and that is to determine during the ratification process whether the amendment goes back to the state legislatures or to state conventions of delegates.

The state legislatures setup their respective state convention of delegates.

This process has been done often before and the only difference is to call a convention of states. The 17th Amendment was initially a convention of states application but Congress realizing the people were serious decided to take it up themselves. However, they did choose the convention of delegates approach to ratification because it conformed with the popularism at the time.

All the above is for the benefit for the readers looking in. You on the other hand have made wrong statements and have attempted to defend or to promote hysterical notions that have no basis in reality or history. Thus, you should take the time to research and get your facts straight before spouting off. Engage the brain before letting the tongue fly.


91 posted on 02/07/2014 11:49:20 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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