Will enough states ratify the GOP amendment?

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Constitution-worshipping Teabaggers will soon see how the rest of the American public views their extortionate thuggery in holding a once-proud nation hostage.



The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.






None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention.






A proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (38 of 50)....












http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/







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This is how you know when a loser is running for office, trying to change the constitution. Anyone remember the last time that happened?
 
Return of Dune said:
This is how you know when a loser is running for office, trying to change the constitution. Anyone remember the last time that happened?
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Yeah, why try to change the Constitution the right way? We should do what the libs do - ram our agenda through the courts without any Constitutional basis. Fuck the Constitution.
 
Volt said:
Yeah, why try to change the Constitution the right way? We should do what the libs do - ram our agenda through the courts without any Constitutional basis. Fuck the Constitution.
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Seriously, when was the last time? You were too young to remember, it's not going to happen. Since you brought it up though, giving corporations and unions the same rights as people seems more of a righty (and wrong) thing.
 
Republicans say they've found the problem in America -- and that problem is the basic framework of the Union as we know it today.




A group of Republicans in the House and Senate are proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow a vote by two-thirds of the states' legislatures to override any federal law they did not agree with.




The proposed constitutional amendment, a tea party favorite, is being touted by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) in the Senate and co-sponsored by Sens. John Barasso (R-WY) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). In the House, Reps. Rob Bishop (R-UT), Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Paul Broun (R-GA) are leading the charge.




The goal, according to proponents, is to stop the tyranny of Washington over the economy and circumscribe other federal powers...












http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...-give-states-veto-power-over-federal-laws.php
 
Return of Dune said:
Seriously, when was the last time? You were too young to remember, it's not going to happen. Since you brought it up though, giving corporations and unions the same rights as people seems more of a righty (and wrong) thing.
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We ratified the 27th in the early 90s, which was actually an originally proposed amendment that failed in 1791. Considering I seem time-oriented toward that decade, it really doesn't seem that long ago to me, so I doubt it would to Brent, either.
 
any liberal bitching about corporate personhood needs to have a talk with the early supreme court over their decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819)

so liberals, quit bitching about it because your vaunted justices that you want to have consider the constitution as a 'living' document did exactly that in their decision.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
any liberal bitching about corporate personhood needs to have a talk with the early supreme court over their decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819)

so liberals, quit bitching about it because your vaunted justices that you want to have consider the constitution as a 'living' document did exactly that in their decision.
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Here's a point from Woodward which liberals ought to pay attention to: "The fact that the government had commissioned the charter did not transform the school into a civil institution."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward
 
Since President Obama took office, Republicans have shrouded their agenda of opposition by wrapping it in the flag and the Constitution.





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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) even went so far as to label her radical anti-government views “constitutional conservatism.”






Yet, for all of their constitutional pablum, the GOP’s agenda is nothing less than a direct assault on America’s founding document.



Time and time again, Republicans have called for basic constitutional freedoms and fundamental aspects of our constitutional government to be repealed either by amendment or by activist judges.












http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/05/111764/gop-v-constitution/
 
Numerous GOP lawmakers, including their Senate leader and a Republican candidate for president, are lining up behind a “review” of the 14th Amendment’s grant of citizenship to virtually all persons born within the United States.


Such a proposal literally revives the vision of citizenship articulated by the Supreme Court’s infamous pro-slavery decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.






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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/05/111764/gop-v-constitution/
 
The Constitution’s “Commerce Clause” gives national leaders broad authority to regulate the national economy, but much of the GOP has embraced “tentherism,” the belief that this power is small enough to be drowned in a bathtub.






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The most famous example of tentherism is the ubiquitous frivolous lawsuits claiming that health reform is unconstitutional, but these lawsuits are part of a much greater effort.


In his brief challenging health reform, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli claims that Congress is allowed to regulate “commerce on one hand” but not “manufacturing or agriculture.”


Cuccinelli’s discredited vision of the Constitution was actually implemented in the late 19th and early 20th century, and it would strike down everything from child labor laws to the federal ban on whites-only lunch counters.














http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/05/111764/gop-v-constitution/


 
The Constitution also gives Congress power to “provide for the common defense and general welfare,” a broad grant of authority to create federal spending programs such as Social Security.


Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), however, recently called upon the Supreme Court to rewrite the Constitution’s clear language and repeal parts of the budget he doesn’t like.


A Texas GOP official even went so far as to claim that the federal highway system is unconstitutional. Should this GOP vision of the Constitution ever be adopted, it could eliminate not just Social Security, but also Medicare, Medicaid, federal education spending and countless other cherished programs.









http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/05/111764/gop-v-constitution/

 
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