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To: adorno
Wouldn't that constitutional amendment be unconstitutional?

If duly adopted, a constitutional amendment becomes part of the Constitution. The Constitution can't be unconstitutional, pretty much by definition. That said, amending the constitution to limit whom voters may choose is a non-starter, and it won't get a majority of Congress nor 3/4 of the states.

18 posted on 11/12/2007 12:38:58 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
The Constitution states that no state may be deprived of its equal vote in the Senate without its consent. What if a constitutional amendment to the effect that the 5 states with the smallest population should have one senator each, and the 5 states with the largest population should have 3 senators each was passed by the required margins in both houses of Congress and 3/4 of the states went through the process of ratifying it?

It should be patently unconstitutional, but who knows if it went to the Supreme Court after Hillary gets to add a couple of new justices?

19 posted on 11/12/2007 6:45:20 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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