[Wonder Warthog]

Sorry, but I've decided you're an idiot. I'm not wasting any more time with your lunatic responses.

Enjoy your fantasies.

[musanon]

Root gave a memorable argument, one which remains unrefuted to this day:
 
" --- If your Honors shall find a way to declare this so-called Amendment to the Federal Constitution valid, then the Government of the United States as it has been known to us and to our forefathers will have ceased to exist. Your Honors will have discovered a new legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution and quite untrammeled by any of its limitations.
You will have declared that two thirds of a quorum of each House of the Congress, plus a majority of a quorum of each of the two Houses of the Legislatures of three fourths of the States, may enact any legislation they please without any reference to the limitations of the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights itself. -- "