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1 posted on 11/13/2015 2:57:32 AM PST by Fhios
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To: Fhios

Please read up on Article V more clearly.

If you think Kentucky is unicameral and Nebraska is not, then you need to seriously brush up on your facts, figures, and critical thinking.


2 posted on 11/13/2015 3:02:03 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Fhios

An Article V convention cannot submit amendments for ratification without a yes vote from 34 states present.

So, if NY demanded repeal of the second amendment (to use your example), 33 other states would have to concur (and then 38 state legislatures would have to ratify).

Not possible.


3 posted on 11/13/2015 3:06:11 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Fhios
I want the conventioneers, and their source legislatures, whoever they may be to sign off on that.

You presume unwarranted honor on the part of the signatories, sir/madam.

They're politicians.

4 posted on 11/13/2015 3:11:19 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Fhios

The Article V convention chairman must be someone we trust, who will not allow shenanigans or coopting attempts.

I propose Mark Levin for chairman.


7 posted on 11/13/2015 3:24:18 AM PST by DNME (This is the government the Framers warned us about.)
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To: Fhios

Are you sure that these protesters are demanding that change, can you get any info please. Thank-you!


8 posted on 11/13/2015 3:26:59 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Fhios

Hello? We don’t need a convention because the laws we ALREADY have are not being followed.

Zero has a phone and a pen, remember?


14 posted on 11/13/2015 3:48:24 AM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Fhios
What happens if say NY passes the Article V but includes demands for revisions to say the 2nd amendment, or VA or IL demanding changes to the 1st amendment? If all the states are not on the same page and targeted within scope, then I just as soon as pass on the Article V.

There would not be one encompassing amendment that says "The Constitution is repealed and replaced with this..."

Each change would be proposed as a standalone amendment, and the states must ratify each proposed amendment individually, not as a single "Article V" package.

-PJ

17 posted on 11/13/2015 4:09:03 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Fhios

You have a poor understanding of the Article V Convention of States.


19 posted on 11/13/2015 4:20:55 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: Fhios

Anything that is proposed by one state will go nowhere.

Once the Article V Convention proposes an amendment, the ratification process is identical to the ratification process for amendments proposed by Congress.

In order to believe that we could lose the Second Amendment, you have to believe that the most conservative thirteen states in the U.S. will vote to get rid of the Second Amendment.


20 posted on 11/13/2015 4:22:46 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Fhios

Not to worry, the states themselves are addressing concerns of a runaway convention. Simply put, their delegates face criminal penalties for voting for anything other than the purpose of the convention.

Mathematics handles the rest. That is, 38 states are needed to ratify anything. This means that if just 13 states are opposed, whatever it is fails. In practical terms, this means that though red states are in the majority, they must get the support of perhaps three or four blue states, almost an impossible obstacle on the surface.

So doing anything that could cost the vote of a single state kills any prospect for an out of control convention.


25 posted on 11/13/2015 5:06:44 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Fhios

Those who oppose Article V and want the status quo support civil war. Period.


30 posted on 11/13/2015 6:29:48 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Fhios; Art in Idaho
Fhios, you can't do better than to check out Art's FR links in #52 collected over the past two plus years.
56 posted on 11/15/2015 1:16:27 AM PST by Jacquerie ( To shun Article V is to embrace tyranny.)
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To: Fhios

You need a 3/4 super-majority of states for crying out loud. If that many states want to destroy freedom, then we’re all lost anyway.


61 posted on 11/27/2015 7:50:25 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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