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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (129182)	1/24/2010 9:34:43 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541997

Here's one answer to how the constitution gets amended. wiki.answers.com Basically, the answer is that it's extraordinarily difficult. Of the two paths, the only one really tried is to get positive two thirds votes in each house of congress; then the legislatures of 3/4s of the states have to approve. Not a route that will produce such an amendment. Without a large change in the political culture which will be fought now with the cash cow of corporate earnings. At the moment, the only hope I see is a change in the SC membership. And that's not likely to happen, at least on this issue.