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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (765094)	1/21/2014 9:52:20 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578618

>> if 34 is reached.....all the Libtard states will join to have input and try to hijack the process libtard states If it makes it to 34 I'd be surprised if it doesn't end up at 50; as you say, CA & NY & the rest will [properly] conclude they had better get in it or they just won't have any say at all. But you are right also -- ratification is something else altogether. My sense is that interest in this was spurred along by Mark Levin's book, although there apparently existed something of a movement before that. There is stuff in Levin's book I wouldn't really go for. But term limits and the repeal of the 17th Amendment are very attractive to me. Most importantly, I'd like to see the Commerce Clause brought back to some kind of reality -- it has just expanded so far beyond what anyone can reasonably consider "original intent" that it is just ridiculous at this point. A phased-in balanced budget amendment makes a lot of sense to me, but the reality is, I think, the states will never be able to agree on this. I think it is a very long, hard road. I do think it would be a very big deal for Congress to understand that they CAN be superseded. That, alone, would have the effect of bringing some reasonableness into the Capitol. Can you imagine the DC power mongers coming face to face with the threat of having constitutional amendments shoved down their throats the way Obamacare was shoved down ours? I read an article a few weeks ago talking about the possibility that the Convention of States actually gets traction in the next couple of years -- and the fact that if it did, it would actually be a bigger story than the presidential election. Just think about that...