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To: Publius

I am growing tired of this.
Many of those who are open-minded have already understood.
Many of the rest are becoming drones.
At this point, the only question that I ask is this:
Tomorrow, Congress can propose an Amendment to repeal the 2nd Amendment. Congress is empowered by Article V to do so.
How do you feel about this?
Their answer to this lets me know if further discussion would be productive.


44 posted on 04/13/2014 5:50:00 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: dontreadthis
Congress and an Amendments Convention have the same rights of proposal, no more and no less. But there is one difference. Congress can propose any amendment it pleases at any time. But an Amendments Convention is required by the rules of contract law to stick to the language of its calling by Congress, and Congress extracts that language from the petitions from the states themselves.

In this case there may be enough valid petitions to force Congress to set the time and place for an Amendments Convention to address a balanced budget amendment, period. No other subject matter may be addressed, lest the Convention exceed its authority. Before anyone starts that canard about the original Constitutional Convention of 1787 exceeding its authority, I would suggest they read Madison's answer to that charge in Federalist #40.

52 posted on 04/13/2014 5:56:12 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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