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To: Arthur McGowan

You need to relax and speak to me like a human being.

“Proposes amendments to the Constitution” = “opens up (constitution)”. Like opening up a contract for negotiation.

And yes, ratification and all of that. It may surprise you that I know history and I talk to those here on FR as though they do too. These people who would attend and “ratify” such “proposed amendments to the Constitution” can’t be trusted to do so.

I would love to answer your question as a person, next time don’t come at me sideways, looking for a fight. thanks.


149 posted on 05/08/2016 5:58:00 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Celerity

Sorry, but that is not the natural sense of the words “open up.”

The natural sense of the words is that the Convention would meet behind closed doors, “open up” the Constitution, and then emerge to show the public the CHANGED Constitution. This is what the ONLY “Constitutional Convention” in our history did.

If you resent being addressed like an ignoramus, then don’t call an Article V a “Constitutional Convention.” There has been one Constitutional Convention, and there is never going to be another, because there is no authorization in the Constitution for another.

You should have made yourself clear in the first place: You are opposed to ANY Constitutional amendments, whether proposed by Congress or by an Article V convention.


159 posted on 05/08/2016 7:17:24 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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