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Response to captain queeg (Original post)

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
4. No. Not even close. I'd recommend reading the constitution. It is on line.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 09:00 PM
Mar 2020

Enough states can force a new constitutional convention. Which would be the biggest shit-show you have ever seen.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
10. I read it every Independence Day. And yeah, I know that was the declaration.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 09:26 PM
Mar 2020

But one led to the other.

NYC Liberal

(20,138 posts)
12. A convention couldn't pass any amendments without 3/4 of states ratifying,
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 09:40 PM
Mar 2020

so it wouldn’t really do much of anything.

brush

(53,968 posts)
8. Two thirds of state legislatures approval for a Constitutional convention or...
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 09:06 PM
Mar 2020

by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate

Igel

(35,383 posts)
14. Want it end like the last civil war?
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 09:58 PM
Mar 2020

Or maybe just say, "Oops, it was an okay thing. Go ahead."

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
15. Don't think you understand how separating the fed gov't from any state or part of a state...
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 10:47 PM
Mar 2020

would crash the economy of the seceding territory, particularly if they are landlocked.

roamer65

(36,748 posts)
16. Not if we join another confederation, like the Canadian confederation.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:10 AM
Mar 2020

We simply walk away.

It will soon be time to stop rearranging deck chairs on the US Trumptanic, especially if he steals the November election.

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