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To: LS
The original Articles delegates had "restrictions" placed upon them "by the states."

You are rewriting history.

And don't give me this crap about what "fight" I'm in

You have not answered the point that the left is already attempting to rewrite the First Amendment proving that the left does not need us to initiate an Article V process. You are indeed in that fight but don't worry they are not going to be able to change the first or the Second Amendment because of the arithmetic I pointed out in my post #52 which I again recommend to your attention.

There is a history of conventions and there is a history of states controlling their delegates. The United States has never had a runaway convention including the Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787 which was fully within the charter of the Articles of Confederation and the authorizations of the states and was properly ratified.

In short there is no historical American basis for your fears.


70 posted on 07/18/2014 4:38:00 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Then we have a totally different reading of the Articles convention, and your arithmetic is useless when it comes to political reality.


80 posted on 07/19/2014 4:14:56 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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