I don't trust the government to amend the constitution. From what I understand, a constitutional convention can edit the constitution different from the proposal that led to the convention.
Local and state laws should have the same effect as what's being proposed. Not sure why it needs to be an amendment.
Should also add to this, a zombie amendment still out there was adopted in 1810, and has yet to be ratified but is still pending. This is the one that would cause anyone accepting a title of nobility to lose American citizenship.
Want to get rid of the BAR permanently? Just get your state legislature to ratify this amendment and say bye bye to lawyers. Esquire is a title of nobility, no matter what the fact checkers try and say. It can be done right now.
This is true, but he's not proposing a constitutional convention. Just an amendment which needs to be adopted by Congress and then ratified by 38 states. The states either accept or reject the the exact amendment as written. If they try any funny business, it will be clearly written, and you only need 13 states to say no.
One interesting thing about amendments proposed in this way is if there is no time limit on ratification written into the amendment, it stays pending forever. It can be adopted by Congress now, and ratified hundreds of years in the future. The 27th amendment is an example of this in action. Adopted by the first Congress in 1789, it wasn't dusted off and ratified by the states until 1980, when they got tired of politicians voting themselves pay raises.
I don't trust the government to amend the constitution. From what I understand, a constitutional convention can edit the constitution different from the proposal that led to the convention.
Local and state laws should have the same effect as what's being proposed. Not sure why it needs to be an amendment.
Should also add to this, a zombie amendment still out there was adopted in 1810, and has yet to be ratified but is still pending. This is the one that would cause anyone accepting a title of nobility to lose American citizenship.
Want to get rid of the BAR permanently? Just get your state legislature to ratify this amendment and say bye bye to lawyers. Esquire is a title of nobility, no matter what the fact checkers try and say. It can be done right now.
This is true, but he's not proposing a constitutional convention. Just an amendment which needs to be adopted by Congress and then ratified by 38 states. The states either accept or reject the the exact amendment as written. If they try any funny business, it will be clearly written, and you only need 13 states to say no.
One interesting thing about amendments proposed in this way is if there is no time limit on ratification written into the amendment, it stays pending forever. It can be adopted by Congress now, and ratified hundreds of years in the future. The 27th amendment is an example of this in action. Adopted by the first Congress in 1789, it wasn't dusted off and ratified by the states until 1980, when they got tired of politicians voting themselves pay raises.