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"Jordan" <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> It's way too hard to get an amendment passed for this to just blow
> through.
>
> Check the constitution, there are two ways to add a new amendment...
>
> First it has to pass by a 2/3rds majority in the House and Senate then
> it's turned over to the states. 3/4 of the states have to vote for it.
> That means 38/50.
>
> Alternatively 2/3rds of the state legislatures could call for a
> Constitutional Convention and re-do as much of the Constitution as
> they'd like, but it would still be subject to a vote of 3/4 of the
> states (plus such a move would be unprecedented, nobody knows how to do
> it or what the ramifications would be.)
States can decide how it's voted for, though. It doesn't necessariliy mean
a popular vote, no?
> In short, the founding fathers made it hard to screw with the
> constitution intentionally. It shouldn't be modified willy nilly (flag
> burning), for a specific person (Bush, Clinton or Schwartzenegger), or
> based on popular social morality of the time (18th amendment).
Shouldn't? That's tough to say.