[lewislynn]

Clarifications will require clarifications. That's not the kind of amendment that will likely pass muster.

I'm sorry you don't understand that clarifications means rewriting the amendment...but it has to be done with another amendment.

Just because you don't think it can be done, does not mean they won't/can't do it...Well unless you are in charge of what is or isn't "muster".

[Political Junkie Too]

I appreciate the gesture of concern, but assure you that there is no need for sorrow. All is well here.

Assuming that a *rewritten* 1st and 2nd amendment is successfully proposed out of the convention, "muster" means it cannot be willfully ignored or bypassed or challenged in court.

The constant argument here is that the government will ignore CoS amendments, so why bother? Would you not hold the same to be true of a liberal amendment curtailing the 1st or 2nd, in this case coming from the states or special interest groups?

Would you grant that the delegates to a CoS would know this, and take pains to not forward to the states any amendment that is not solid in its structure? To do so, something much more substantive than a clarification on a rewrite (not repeal) would be expected?

-PJ