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To: cotton1706; Ghost of Philip Marlowe; StoneWall Brigade; TADSLOS; KC_Lion; Jack Hydrazine; ...

It may be a challenge for you to even find out who your state legislators are but do what you need to do and send them the below amendment proposal which you can bet they will like very much because it’s right up their alley, it’s natural to them and has no political repercussions for them.

Here’s what they need to propose as an amendment to the Constitution:
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To redress the balance of powers between the federal government and the States and to restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:

AMENDMENT XXVIII

Section 1.
A Senator in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.

Section 2.
Upon a majority vote in two-thirds of state legislatures, federal statutes and federal court decisions shall be overridden.

Section 3.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years.
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SEND THE ABOVE DRAFT AMENDMENT PROPOSAL TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS, CALL THEM TO CONFIRM THEY RECEIVED IT, THEN GET THEIR FEEDBACK!

Now if Section 1 above is replaced with a repeal of the 17th Amendment, that may be even better but it may be a hard sale. Recalling US Senators gets the job done for state legislatures and it also requires interaction with the voters as they retain the right to vote for their US Senator.

With the above amendment, there would be no Obamacare, no same-sex marriage nonsense and so on. Most of the social issue tyranny would go away.

What substantially remains is a check on federal spending and tax reform. Both are adequately addressed by first passing HR 25 (Senate S-155) which a President Cruz has already pledged to do and by passing HJRes 16 or by similar repeal from the Convention of States.

Here’s the text of HR 25 and also in PDF:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/25/text

https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr25/BILLS-114hr25ih.pdf

and for HJRes 16:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-joint-resolution/16/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22repeal+16th%22%5D%7D

There are plenty of proposed amendments presently in Congress but they go nowhere because they take power away from the federal government.

https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%5B%22114%22%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22joint-resolutions%22%7D

On the other hand State Legislatures can convene to do what Congress will not do on its own. And State Legislatures need approval from no one except themselves and the voters that support them.


30 posted on 02/04/2015 6:33:58 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3253893/posts?page=30#30


37 posted on 02/04/2015 6:44:32 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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