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- From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: The BET IS ON!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.155730.11455@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <15DEC92.17345152@vax.clarku.edu> <1992Dec16.030828.21403@midway.uchicago.edu> <16DEC92.08221278@vax.clarku.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:57:30 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <16DEC92.08221278@vax.clarku.edu>
- lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >In a previous article, eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley) wrote:
- >>In article <15DEC92.17345152@vax.clarku.edu>
- >>lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- >>>But my point is that the constitution can be ammended. If the majority wants
- >>>something that is unconstitutional, all they have to do is elect people who
- >>>will make ammendments to the constitution. An example of this is prohibition.
- >>>When it was ammended to the constitution that drinking was illegal it became
- >>>unconstitutional to drink. Then, prohibition was repealed, making something
- >>>that was once unconstitutional legal again.
-
- >>Try reading the Constitution. Try the section on how one passes an
- >>amendment. Hint: not by simple majority vote.
-
- >Why don't you read the paragraph that you are replying to again. You see the
- >second sentence?
-
- >Hint: It doesn't say that ammendments are made my majority vote. It says
- >ammendments are made by officials who are chosen by majority vote.
-
- >Maybe you should read the constitution. It pretty much says that Congress
- >(elected officials) either propose ammandments, or call a convention to
- >propose ammendments. Either way, these ammendments shall be "valid to all
- >Intents and Purposes, as part of this constitution" once they have been
- >ratified by (yes, you guessed it) more elected officials. Hmmmm. Seems like
- >whoever has control of the elections (the majority, perhaps) can therefore get
- >anything that they want ammended to the constitution, simply by voting for the
- >people who will make it so.
-
-
- Guess what? A simple majority of the people will be unevenly
- distributed between the various states and districts, and is extremely
- unlikely to succeed in electing two-thirds of the House and Senate and
- a majority of three-quarters of the State legislatures.
-
- Next stupid idea?
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-
- Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
-