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To: Sherman Logan
Amendment ONLY pass when there is broad national and regional consensus in their favor.

Not so. The 18th Amendment was passed with strong opposition, about half of the country. It was about where this country is now.

I think that with this Supreme Court treachery, there are going to be a lot of minds changed about pushing for the amendment that weren't convinced before. A LOT of minds.

19 posted on 06/27/2013 11:47:23 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
The 18th Amendment was passed with strong opposition, about half of the country.

Baloney. We didn't have opinion polls back then, but it was enormously popular.

Senate vote 65 t0 20. House vote 182 to 128. 46 of 48 states ratified it. Only two voted against it.

Now it wasn't too many years, obviously, before a whole lot of people changed their minds. But in 1918/19 the amendment was wildly popular or at least considered inevitable.

28 posted on 06/27/2013 12:42:11 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: fwdude

The problem with a Constitutional Amendment, though, is that it will be as binding on the government as the 4th, 5th, and 6th were on the NSA/FISA-court.


41 posted on 06/27/2013 2:47:15 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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