Comments on: Call a Convention

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:40:12 +0000

That was a long time ago, true, maybe my memory is getting faulty in my old age.

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:30:28 +0000

Sorry, that was before I paid any attention to politics, so I know nothing about it. But if I remember my high school governance class, state legislatures don’t have any say over the US constitution, other than that of calling for a Constitutional Convention. If you’re correct, they could only have been amending their state constitutions, which are overridden by the federal one.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:18:46 +0000

Yeah, several states during the Reagan era passed legislation to make a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion, for example….

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:22:31 +0000

But there are fifty times as many of them, making them fifty times harder and more expensive to influence. And who says conservatives won't go for the idea -- after all, it's a chance for them to propose Constitutional amendments too.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:24:57 +0000

The state legislatures are just as special-interest-ridden and are even more conservative than the Congress, it ain’t going to happen.