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To: RED SOUTH

Just after this fraud took the WH in January, some congresscritter submits a bill to have obozo serve for life by doing away with the two terms clause.


15 posted on 06/28/2009 1:20:38 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: lilylangtree

Any change to the Constitution has to be ratified by 3/4 of the States after Congress passes, and that is never going to happen on something like term limits which were put in place after FDR. In this case our small Red States have as much clout as the large states of CA and NY. Our founding fathers were smart men when they drafted our Constitution to make it hard to make changes.

Excerpt. Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress. End Except

The United States Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947.[1] It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.


38 posted on 06/28/2009 1:43:30 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin for OK Governor/Coburn for Senate 2010 ! Mark Rubio for FL Senate 2010!)
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To: lilylangtree

YOu have to do more than that to change the Constitutional Admendment


96 posted on 06/28/2009 3:43:18 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Socialism is the financial arm of Communism)
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