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To: Cheerio
"Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in his new book, recommends six rewrites to the U.S. Constitution."

Sorry, JPS. We don't 'rewrite' the Constitution. We AMEND it, and it's not up to a single retired self-important jackass to do it. It's done through a defined process and ratified by the States.

Liberal dickweed...

12 posted on 04/21/2014 9:20:42 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: DJ Frisat

The process of amending the Constitution is extremely cumbersome, just as the Founders intended. Especially the part about three fourths of the state legislatures must vote to ratify an amendment passed by two thirds majorities in the Congress. That’s thirty-eight states.

Ol’ J.P. needs to lace up his hiking shoes & hit the bricks - every Congressional office & every State assembly in the Union. It’ll take more than the “stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool” that Paul Forehead Begala envisioned.

Real question for Constitutional scholars on FR: to amend an Amendment, must the original Amendment be revoked, to be followed by a totally new amendment measure, or can it be done by a single piece of amendment legislation? I don’t know.


24 posted on 04/21/2014 9:39:51 AM PDT by elcid1970
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