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To: TimF who wrote (160223)	4/8/2005 3:35:44 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

not by a direct vote of the people. Which is why I said one might argue over semantics. I'm sure you are also aware of the Convention method, and the fact that the States can initiate the proceedings aside from Congress. Note that the Convention method can sidestep the state legislatures as well, to get more directly at the people. Of course, one could well argue that our Presidential selection is not directly democratic either, given the quirks of the Electoral College and the apportionment of Electors amongst the states, but it is an approximation. The Constitutional Convention approach is similarly an approximation of a truly democratic referendum. The Founding Fathers did seem fond of somewhat undemocratic check valves in most proceedings.