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To: Red Badger

A constitutional convention is the most dangerous idea I have heard lately.

Amendments can be proposed and voted on by the states if changes are required.

Once a constitutional convention is opened, everything can change. Do we really want to do that when the left control so much of the power right now?

This idea is insane.


31 posted on 08/22/2013 1:31:47 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“Amendments can be proposed and voted on by the states if changes are required.”

They cannot. Only the congress or a convention can submit amendments to the state legislatures for ratification.

And one of Levin’s amendments is to grant the power to the states to originate ameendments.


37 posted on 08/22/2013 1:34:43 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: CIB-173RDABN

[ A constitutional convention is the most dangerous idea I have heard lately.

Amendments can be proposed and voted on by the states if changes are required.

Once a constitutional convention is opened, everything can change. Do we really want to do that when the left control so much of the power right now?

This idea is insane. ]

If we cannot trust our own people to vote the right way then this is the last gasp before an actual revolution...

If we do not breathe we will certainly succumb to tyranny by drowning in it...


79 posted on 08/22/2013 2:51:13 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: CIB-173RDABN
A constitutional convention is the most dangerous idea I have heard lately.

No such thing as a Constitutional Convention. It's a convention for proposing amendments ONLY, and any proposed amendments would still have to be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures.
232 posted on 08/24/2013 6:16:22 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“This idea is insane.”
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You might even say CRIMINALLY insane.


243 posted on 08/25/2013 12:32:44 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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