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To: Little Joe who wrote (45108)	8/24/2010 9:06:36 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) of 71588

Re: "The significant difference that the article ignores is that Republicans want to amend the constitution. (Mainly to over ride controversial court interpretations)." My God, man... what does "birth right citizenship" have to do with "controversial court interpretations"???????????????? It's a constitutional provision (14th Amendment) that has been the law of the land for well more then a century, back to just after the Civil War. The federal income tax (16th Amendment) dates to a century ago. Again, not any 'interpretation'. "Direct election of senators"? (No 'interpretation' there!) But... a lot of the amendments that various politicians are pushing (prohibit government ownership of private companies, bar same-sex marriage, require a two-thirds vote in Congress to raise taxes, prohibit desecration of the American flag, castrate rapists, allow voters to directly repeal laws passed by Congress, etc., etc.) is VERY MUCH radical change. (And, a lot of that probably should be legislation not anything put into our noble Constitution.) You ask me, the ONLY THING we need to put in our Constitution right now is a Balanced Budget requirement!

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