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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4809)	11/15/2006 10:52:22 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

The only groundswell that Congress will respect if the referendum. On a national level that means a Constitutional Amendment. The amendment would have to be passed by congress with a two thirds majority, unless you anticipate having a new constitutional convention. The later method has never been used for an amendment.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4809)	11/15/2006 12:02:04 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

"The only groundswell that Congress will respect if the referendum. On a national level that means a Constitutional Amendment." If I remember how Constitutional Amendments work, they first require passage in Congress by a 2/3 majority, and then ratification by the states? Both houses of Congress have their own internal rules for how they operate. It would only require changing those rules to permit a rating system to be used. As a practical matter, though, I agree that it wouldn't be very easy to, um, "encourage" them to enact such a system. Just judging from the resistance to the idea here, among my fellow conservatives, it wouldn't be a very likely thing to happen. And, since it would be a fairly complicated process to establish a rating system, it isn't very likely that more apathetic Americans would ever learn enough about the process to force the issue.