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To: dware
Think about what you are saying. You would forbid me from advocating Article V because it forecloses your free speech!

The Constitution presumes to tell you who you can and cannot vote for. For example, you may not vote for someone under the age of 35 to be president of the United States. If the Constitution is changed to forbid you from voting more than two or three terms for an elected individual, it does so on the very same authority.

As I said in a previous post, you accept the Constitution or you do not. If the Constitution imposes term limits and you do not like term limits, advocate the repeal of that amendment-after all we repealed prohibition so it can be done. Your alternative is to grouse as you're doing now or start a revolution.

Further, we all try to "change the rules to fit our needs", that is provided for the Constitution in the amendment process as laid out in Article V. It is done every season by application to state and federal courts and it is an accepted part of our governmental system. If you don't like the system resort to Article V and get it changed. Don't blame me for a system created in 1787.


79 posted on 06/25/2015 11:23:48 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
You would forbid me from advocating Article V because it forecloses your free speech!

Wrong. I never said that. I said I oppose your attempts to change the rules regarding term limits, because it restricts my free speech. There's a BIG difference there.

82 posted on 06/25/2015 11:27:06 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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