[Vision2020] Balance of Powers

[David M. Budge]

Tom,

There are already 13 states with this amendment in their own constitutions.
I agree it's wrong, but I could happen.  If California goes with it in 
November
all bets are off.

The ERA appeared to be superflouous to many conservatives.  It was doomed
from the start.

db

Tom Hansen wrote:

>David Budge stated:
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>"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."
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>To amend the US Constitution, it still requires three-fourths of the states
>(38) to ratify the amendment.  
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>"Article V
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>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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>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repealed.  
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>To even consider this as an amendment is simply WRONG.
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>Take care, Moscow.
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>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
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>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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