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To: Publius

After 225 years, one would think all the points you brought up would have been statutorily settled. No such luck.

I’m not all confident congress will allow a convention. I doubt they would refuse to call a convention after 34 applications, because I don’t put it beyond congress to threaten, bribe, extort . . . do what it takes to prevent 34 applications from happening.


15 posted on 04/11/2014 4:36:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie ( Article V.)
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To: Jacquerie
They haven't been settled because we've never had an Amendments Convention under the rubrics of Article V. This would be our first time, so I would expect a lot of gray areas to be litigated until they are black or white.

Congress won't bribe or threaten, but they will try to use the unwritten Single Subject Standard and Contemporaneousness Standard to sandbag the effort. Those will probably have to be litigated unless there are enough votes in Congress among conservatives to block such interference.

16 posted on 04/11/2014 4:42:44 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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