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Disgruntled Democrats Want A Constitutional Convention To Leave The Union
ntknetwork.com ^ | December 6, 2016 1:57 pm | Staff

Posted on 12/06/2016 12:54:31 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Deplorable American1776

Good point.

How about this caveat:

No vote for the able bodied living on government handouts


141 posted on 12/06/2016 8:46:53 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The "danger" is so arithmetically remote as to be inconsequential, a reality of which you must be aware since the following reply has been posted many, many times by me and other FReepers since it was first written in 2015:

There are 99 houses in 50 state legislatures. Any leftist amendment would require only 13 of these legislative bodies from 99 to defeat ratification. In other words, three quarters of the state legislatures must ratify or 38 states. If 13 legislatures fail to ratify the amendment is defeated. Since ratification by legislatures requires both houses to consent, only 13/99 are required. That is very close to 13%.

After the last election Republicans control 69 houses of the 99 state legislative houses. Republicans control 31 of the 50 state legislatures. To stop any unwise or imprudent amendment would require only 13 of these 69 Statehouses (from different states) or about 19%, fewer than one in five.

The problem will not be to stop left-wing amendments but to pass prudent conservative amendments which restore the Constitution by invoking the Constitution.

If the Congress of the United States elects to have the ratification procedures conducted by conventions rather than legislatures, the method of selecting the delegates to those conventions would be chosen by the legislatures. If only 13 legislative bodies out of 99 object to the method chosen by the other body because it is considered to favor a leftist amendment, there is no ratification forthcoming from that state.

By either procedure the odds of a liberal amendment getting past so many conservative legislative bodies in so many states is both arithmetically and practically remote.

Finally, this is only the last line of defense, there are innumerable steps along the way which make a "runaway convention" virtually impossible and render the need for the states to fail to ratify very likely superfluous.


142 posted on 12/06/2016 9:08:41 PM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: quesney

California was red at some point!


143 posted on 12/06/2016 9:40:48 PM PST by Blackhawk45 (The media has rendered itself irrelevant!)
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To: Wneighbor

IIRC, Rush said yesterday, and I agree, congressional rats are spring-loaded to demand a special counsel to investigate Trump. The reason doesn’t matter; they will come up with an excuse soon enough. The media will be all over it and never let up. It is how the statists will attempt to derail Trump. I hope his close advisers are ready.


144 posted on 12/07/2016 3:17:18 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Red Badger

If they want the E.C. to be closer to the popular vote, these Califoolians should use the Congressional district method rather than the winner-take-all method. But that would kill their own clout in the E.C., and all states would need to switch for it to actually work.


145 posted on 12/07/2016 4:45:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: Blackhawk45

It was, but immigrants and liberal transplants changed all that.


146 posted on 12/07/2016 4:49:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: Jacquerie

As a countermove, Trump should be spring-loaded to criminally investigate Hillary Clinton. Hopefully, that will ward the leftoids off like a cross and garlic does to a vampire.


147 posted on 12/07/2016 4:50:42 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: Boomer

Read Atlas Shrugged for a look at that universe............


148 posted on 12/07/2016 6:00:08 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
CA secession would be the greatest thing that could happen. Without the anchor of their solid Democrat 55 EV's the rest of the USA could return to it's little r republican roots.

Via con Dios Kalifornica. How can I help?

149 posted on 12/07/2016 6:04:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Iron Munro

Yes...it would be good....


150 posted on 12/07/2016 8:32:34 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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