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Re: *Some* Southerners Are STOOPID (WAS Battle flag

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From: Lloyd R. Parker
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:02
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Dave Simpson (nospam@newsranger.com) wrote:
: 
: Jim Patterson wrote:
: 
: >[From Atl.General]
: 
: Noted
: 
: >The modern liberals are very unlikely to go for an amendment since
: >that process comes under Article V of the Constitution and they know
: >that their feel-good legislation is very unlikely to withstand such
: >scrutiny and a 2/3 to start and then a 3/4 to ratify majority.
: 
: The only legitimate means of getting what they want is to have a
: convention or get Congress to pass amendments, and yes, you're
: right -- they won't likely get what they want when those outside their
: group of supporters find out what's proposed.
: 
: It also fits their moral laxity instead to bend and twist and distort
: the meaning of the law, to use specious argument such as basing
: their claims on the Preamble to the Constitution or to say that the

Whoa!  Not the preamble -- article I, section 8 -- "provide for the
general welfare."  Perhaps it's you who are ignorant of the constitution.

: 
: (The Supreme Court decision inventing the requirement for _both_
: houses of state legislatures to be based on one-person, one-vote
: representation was illegitimate, and how ironic that the Senate
: remains the way it is.)

Because that's in the constitution.  No such exemption for state
legislatures is in it.
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From: lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd R. Parker)
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Subject: Re: *Some* Southerners Are STOOPID (WAS Battle flag
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