[Mariner]

No such amendment would ever pass...why would FDT back it?

Why is it the business of the Federal Government? The Feds don't even have a nationwide law against murder...the federal law on murder only applies to federal lands.

Such an amendment is clearly contrary to the intent of the constitution...as surely as the Roe v Wade interpretation of "privacy" is.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Such an amendment is clearly contrary to the intent of the constitution...

Incorrect!

Try reading it:

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;...

[FreeReign]

No such amendment would ever pass...why would FDT back it? Why is it the business of the Federal Government? The Feds don't even have a nationwide law against murder...the federal law on murder only applies to federal lands. Such an amendment is clearly contrary to the intent of the constitution...as surely as the Roe v Wade interpretation of "privacy" is.

Well said.