Posted on 01/12/2009 12:00:00 PM PST by thatjoeguy
S.J. Res. 4. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Excerpt: "S.J. Res. 4"
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Whoops, note: You need to scroll all the way down to see the actual bill.
JB
How about an amendment in favor of TERM LIMITS?
This has been introduced every year since 2001. It’s not going anywhere.
So Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL] is in Soros’ pocket too!
December 14, 2008
By JONATHAN SOROS
“It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html
An amendment to the constitution would require ratification by the states and I don’t think the smaller states are going to be willing to erode their own influence.
I certainly hope so.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll928.xml
Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]: [Introducing S. J. Res. 4] Mr. President, earlier today, the Congress met in a joint session, as it does every 4 years in early January, to conduct the official count of the electoral ballots from the States. Most Americans pay no attention to this ritual, believing that presidential elections in this country get decided on Election Day. But it is the votes of the Electoral College, presented by each State to the Congress, that determine who our next President and Vice President are going to be. We are the beacon of democracy in the world, and yet, voters in this country do not have the opportunity to elect their leaders directly.
Even if you sit for weeks and think of all the potential "unintended consequences," you wouldn't begin to define the potential national and cultural trainwreck.
Assuming, of course, that you have a brain in your head, are familiar with history, human nature, politics and the social contract.
Not a prayer!
Instead of playing defense, we should be playing offense in our various states. Most of us in Pennsylvania are getting damn sick and tired of having our votes invalidated by the Philly Fraud Machine.
If we can't kick Philadelphia out of the state, the very least we can do is adopt the district system for electors as is done in Maine and Nebraska.
Since Oba Mao actually picked up one electoral vote in Nebraska due to this system, the timing couldn't be better than to introduce it nationwide.
How does that work? Each electoral district gives it vote to the majority winner for that district?
Iowa and New Hampshire, for certain.....
Should be interesting to find out who joins Bill Nelson in this.
How about an amendment requiring proof of citizenship?
Not just “no”, but “hell no”.
Small states and states with sparse population will have nothing to do with this. This is right up zero’s alley. The liberal left, marxists and socialists centered in our big cities would be the centers of all vote getting and fraud. Conservatism would die on the vine.
Instead, let’s repeal the 17th Amendment and go back to state legislatures picking Senators.
The drafters of the Constitution had it right. The federal government should be controlled by the states, not the other way around.
While we're dismantling our constitutional republic, how about getting rid of that prohibition on bills of attainder, scrapping the natural-born citizen clause, and the age limits on elective offices? /sarcasm
don’t worry about it.....since the inception of this country, there have been over 22,000 proposed amendments to the constitution........only 27 have made it all the way
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