[PJBankard]

Since the 18th Amendment, Congress has set a term of seven years for ratification.

Can you provide documentation on that?

As of currently there are 4 amendments to the Constitution, waiting to be ratified by the States. Three of the four were proposed before the 18th Amendment, with one being after. Although the likely hood of these being ratified is non-existance, they could still ratified by the states. As well if no deadline is explicitly written into the amendment for when to ratify it by, it can be ratified whenever the states choose to ratify it.

[TLI]

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/amendments.htm

It's really a guideline more than a rule. The point being made is that it intentionally takes years to amend the Constitution so nut cases like Pelosi don't put ten percent of the population the Republic in prison camps or force citizens into servitude to the federal government on a whim.

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