To: TimF who wrote (47559 ) 12/21/2010 3:01:52 AM From: DuckTapeSunroof Read Replies (1) | Respond to I see nothing especially wrong with the concept (except for rewarding tiny states with even *more* power then they already have, which I would be a'gin....)nearly a complete IMPOSSIBILITY, and likely wouldn't even have much effect anyway .Like any constitutional amendment, it faces enormous hurdles: it must be approved by both chambers of Congress — requiring them to agree, in this case, to check their own power — and then by three-quarters of, or 38, state legislatures. “You can bet the ranch that there are enough state legislators in the large states who will not consider it a good idea to reinforce the power of small parochial rural states in which most Americans do not live.” , Professor Levinson said. “Any bill that can get through the byzantine, gridlocked process of being approved by two houses and the presidential signature is wildly unlikely to be opposed by two-thirds of the states ,” he said.
