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Vermont Becomes First State to Call For Constitutional Convention to Overturn Citizens United
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Originally posted by BroncsRule View PostJefferson lobbied for an expiration date on the Constitution. His suggestion was 20 years. Force each generation to come together and hammer out a new Constitution that would work better for them.
He lost.
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Originally posted by BroncsRule View PostJefferson lobbied for an expiration date on the Constitution. His suggestion was 20 years. Force each generation to come together and hammer out a new Constitution that would work better for them.
He lost.Last edited by Garcia Bronco; 05-07-2014, 06:04 PM.
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Originally posted by ghwk View Postgiven the current state of our SCOTUS and Red vs Blue I think it is probably a good thing he lost . Politically we are a mess due to lobbying and gerrymandering and a hundred other things. The fact that we have a 200 yr old constitution may be what makes this from becoming even worse.
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Originally posted by BroncsRule View PostUm, there is no provision IN the Constitution that would enable the calling of a new Constitutional Convention..
The idea is entirely extra-constitutional.
Not a bad idea mind, but still.
Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
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