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2/3 of both houses of Congress is only one possible precondition for an Article V Convention .......
See "paste" below from Website "Friends of the Article V Convention"
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.
However, the state legislatures of ALL 50 states have already submitted over 607 applications to make amendments. Congress and the Supreme Court are violating the Constitution.
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The Congress and the Supreme Court have, like George Bush, violated the Constitution and thus like George Bush, are guilty of treason.
Love it ........ law of the jungle ..... every man for himself ...... and so the USA has become.
I have looked into the abyss.
All of us contain within our DNA the capacity to kill millions or love millions ........darkness and light.
Still, it is our choice which we choose to serve.
No man has any real power except what is given to him/her by others ....... that is why people seek it ....... and not for others good first but their own.
And when the people withdraw their support, the power wanes and the "power" of the effected becomes hatred of those who have betrayed him/her.
We have no innate power ....... only the power to choose what powers we will let play out thru us.
...... preaches hate against those who do not agree with their beliefs.
Enlightenment and consciousness is the work of individuals and not groups ....
Beware any self-serving religion be it extreme muslims or republican "free-markets" ...
Represent the average american ........ they represent vested interests.
How could they know what they average american thinks as they never associate with them on a real life level.
Washington, DC should be isolated, quarantined and then fumigated.
Self-righteous, self-important, worthless assholes.
One day the american people will awaken from their conditioning and realize that they have no need of paupers dressed as kings and queens ......... that these parasites need them ...... they do not need the career politicians.
On that day, they will begin to dismiss these cretins at will.
About something considered important in their culture.
Being lied to is reason enough to end a marriage .....get a lawyer.
We don't need any more professional politicians ...... however "qualified" they may be.
Obama's message of change should mean bringing in new people with a fresh perspective outside the "inbred" phenomena that Washington has become.
If it is simply a political appointment to appease members of the party, what makes him any different than anyone else?
20 years ago, Obama could have passed for a moderate republican.
Which only shows how far to the right the country moved under Bush .... to fascism.
Such an extreme position has skewed our perception of others ......having moved all terms toward the right ......most people can't see the relativism of the country's views.
He talked everyone into the lemon called Nafta and at who's request do you think ???? ..... the dealerships owner (the corporate rich) ....
do they talk about things which are imaginary as if they are real and shun the reality of what they truly create around them.
"The Clintonites in his Cabinet, forgiveness for Lieberman, the creeping signs of centrism -- progressives aren't ready to panic, yet"
They should be ....... be very afraid.
Paralleling illegal downloading and pirating of copyrighted materials .....
This slowly crashing culture has produced a generation without ethics ...... they will reap the crushing results as corporations and the govt apply the same lack of respect to their private lives and their peers raise no objections because they truly don't see how wrong it is.
Than the american patriot consumer mad dog materialists who trampled and killed a person in Walmart so they could get a "good deal" on some inanimate object. Bereft of consciousness and soul.
Just like the Wall Street thieves but at a lower level.
Like turds in water ....
If Obama doesn't deliver, the country will be ripe for a third party.
The word democracy means nothing.
An Article V Convention, guaranteed by the Constituion, has been denied by Congress.
Lobbyists are still allowed to placed their diseased feet upon publicly owned property.
Congress continues to vote itself raises and have benefits that other americans do not have.
Both parties at the state and national level continue with archaic regulations meant to discourage the rise of third parties.
A National Referendum System (like Switzerland has) is needed to bypass the corrupt and cowardly Congress.
As an example, 99 out of every 100 calls to Congress about the bailout were against it.
Democracy ????? Go back to your dream world.
Consuming materialists convinced of their right to consume and be entertained.
Their soulessness and the harvest of meaninglessness and now upon them.
Kill them all.
Trash ......
40 Million Americans have no health insurance .....
Every other industrialized country in the world has some sort of nationalized health care.
Employers are made non-competitive by having to pay employees insurance.
US health care system is listed 37th (down with "3rd world countries") by WHO due to lack of access by those who cannot afford.
Including any man or woman that marries for money or status - they simply just have one john.
Inexpensive gas ..... and the price is artificially low now which sends the wrong message.
More expensive gasoline will remove large heavy inefficient vehicles from the road (except where needed for work functions).