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To: GraceG

The purpose of posting the article was simply for review and discussion.


4 posted on 10/06/2014 12:44:53 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Okay, I was facepalming my way through reading it, which is why I made so many spelling errors in my response, I was in a “You have got to be **** kidding me” mode of destroying my keyborad by presing the keys of my keyboard through my desk...

Sounds like your typical hype piece from the “Birtchers” that OMG they could propose an entirely new consititution...

Technically if this were true so could congress, ie the senate and the house!!!!! And it would ONLY be valid if and only if 4/5 of the states agreed to it.

Secnario: Suppose that the Senate and House members were all taken over by alien parasites that controled them like puppets. They could propose a new amendment that would Strike all amendments 1 through 27 from the consitution into oblivion....

However....

If 1/4 of the states (legislatures) and one additional state (legislature) say “No Way Jack” the alien plans will be thwarted... as it takes 3/4 of the state legislatures in order to RATIFY the amendment ie. Make it go into effect....

End Scenario

So you have a process which has TWO paths to PROPOSE an amendment. One is Passing of it through the Federal Legislature (federal Senate and federal House) and the other is it passing through 2/3rds of the STATE Legislatures (state hosue and state senate - except nebraska, they are weird).

Both steps still have the SAME ratification step in front of them after they pass the first hurdle...


9 posted on 10/06/2014 12:55:28 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Whenifhow
The purpose of posting the article was simply for review and discussion.

But the below-the-line comments were your own.

Folks! For the sake of your Posterity, you must understand this: After a convention is convened, the delegates can do whatever they want – including coming up with an entirely new Constitution with its own new method of ratification.

The convention CANNOT toss out the existing Constitution because it can only propose amendments to the existing Constitution.

If you think that it will pass a single amendment that says "Nullify the entire Constitution and replace it with this..." then you are nuts.

-PJ

47 posted on 10/06/2014 2:49:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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