Gallup: Republicans Appear Poised to Win Big on Tuesday (Projected gains in "uncharted territory")

Article V covers "amendments" and those take a 2/3 vote of the House before they can go to the states where a 3/4 concurrence is required. They also have to go to the Senate for a 2/3 vote.

Now, look at the Senate? What power is it they don't have?

It's the one the House has to call out the militia. After all, the states already control the militia so the Senate, which is their house, has no need for separate authority.

That right there is what you have to pay attention to ~ inferentially. If you have 2/3 voting margins in the House backed up with 3/4 voting margins in the states, and the control of the militia, you have THE PARLIAMENT ~ and all at once the Executive becomes a puppet which the House can dictate to.

These are called Constitutional Majorities. They do not exist unless they are needed and then they give the States and Congress, working together, the power to REWRITE THE RULES FOR RUNNING A COUNTRY.

Article V provides for written amendments, but if the first one you pass is "All Power To The Soviets", there you have the history of such power.

You only have such power in the direst of circumstances. You can go straight from tightly controlled representative democracy to a unitary totalitarian state with ONE ELECTION.

The United Kingdom grants such power to its parliament already ~ and has done so for several centuries. They have been in some dire circumstances over that time.

It should be noted, however, that this year's 15-point gap in favor of the Republican candidates among likely voters is unprecedented in Gallup polling and could result in the largest Republican margin in House voting in several generations.

The Dems better note that their socialist agenda is being rejected. And the Republicans better note that if they return to being Dem-lites, they will also be rejected in the next election.

What really worries me are the calls the for “powersharing” or some such that are sure to follow a wipeout of Dem seats.

I hope that the new House Leader (Pence, Bachman) will have the testicular fortitude to ask any of the socialists where the power sharing was for the past 4 years. I really do.

Frankly, I’d love to see term limits - as I think career politicians are a huge cause of the problems and the longer they stay out there in DC, the more bought off they (all) become.

I agree that corruption takes time and if we limit the amount of time they can serve it will reduce corruption.

I however think that the key element of corruption is power. with some much power centralized in Washington, all of the corrupting influences such as money, lobbyists, celebrity, etc. are also centralized in Washington.

The amount of corruption in Washington is directly proportional to the amount of power in the federal government.

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