[Vision2020] Balance of Powers

[Tom Hansen]

David Budge stated:

 

"If the Congress can - and it just maybe can - get the country to adopt that
ridiculous Federal Marriage Amendment, let the 14th Amendment be damned.  It
will be law."
 
To amend the US Constitution, it still requires three-fourths of the states
(38) to ratify the amendment.  
 
"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."
 
I don't see that happening.  Remember Reagan and the Equal Rights Amendment
(Reagan believed in the "E" and the "R", but not the "A")?  It missed
ratification by (I think) two states.  I seriously doubt that you are going
to find 38 states willing to amend the US Constitution in an effort to
define marriage.  The American people tried once to legislate morality
during the prohibition.  That didn't work and the 18th Amendment was
repealed.  
 
To even consider this as an amendment is simply WRONG.
 
Take care, Moscow.
 
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 
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