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To: ilgipper

Amendments only pass when there is a national consensus on an issue. We are divided on just about every issue, so no amendment.

Also we have been “reinterpreting” or just ignoring the Constitution when it suits us since 1930. So no real need to amend.

The last substantive amendment, IMO, was the 22nd in 1951. Since that merely formalized a long-standing tradition, the last “real” amendment was arguably the 19th in 1920.


12 posted on 07/10/2013 1:33:10 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Mark seems confident in this plan to introduce 11 Amendments in the State legislatures to restore the Republic.

I do not know the details - but look - if the people of a state, in an attempt to introduce an amendment to their STATE Constitutions to prohibit Federal or other States to impose homosexual marriage upon them (by designating marriage as between one man and one woman) - has that entire Amendment THROWN OUT and DECLARED Unconstitutional, or as in Arizona’s case to enforce laws to secure it’s own borders having been thrown out as an unConstitutional infringement upon Federal power and jurisdiction - I have no confidence that ANY State legislative Amendment to the FEDERAL Constitution would not meet the same exact fate.


16 posted on 07/10/2013 4:24:02 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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