On Jun 20, 6:23*pm, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
"an old friend" wrote in ...
On Jun 20, 5:49 pm, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
"an old friend" wrote in
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On Jun 20, 3:06 pm, RHF wrote:
you want to change the constitution or what
Changing the Constitution seems to be everyone's answer for everything
these
days..-
where was that advocated?
Where? Don't you watch the news? Read the papers? Constitutional changes
have been suggested and/or attempted for such things as:
109th Congress (2005-2006)
* a.. To ensure reproductive rights of women
* b.. To force the Congress and President to agree to a balanced budget,
with overspending allowed only in the case of a three-fifths vote of
Congress
* c.. To ensure that all children who are citizens have a right to a "free
and adequate education"
* d.. To specifically permit prayer at school meetings and ceremonies
* e.. To allow non-natural born citizens to become President if they have
been a citizen for 20 years
* f.. To specifically allow Congress to regulate the amount of personal
funds a candidate to public office can expend in a campaign
* g.. To ensure that apportionment of Representatives be set by counting
only citizens
* h.. To make the filibuster in the Senate a part of the Constitution
* i.. To provide for continuity of government in case of a catastrophic
event
* j.. The "Every Vote Counts" Amendment - providing for direct election of
the President and Vice President, abolishing the Electoral College
* k.. To clarify eminent domain, specifically that no takings can be
transferred to a private person except for transportation projects
* l.. Providing a right to work, for equal pay for equal work, the right to
organize, and the right to favorable work conditions
* m.. To allow the President to reduce any Congressional appropriation, or
to disapprove of same (akin to a line-item veto)
108th Congress (2003-2004)
* a.. To lower the age restriction on Representatives and Senators from 30
and 25 respectively to 21
* b.. To ensure that citizens of U.S. territories and commonwealths can vote
in presidential elections
* c.. To guarantee the right to use the word "God" in the Pledge of
Allegiance and the national motto
* d.. To restrict marriage in all states to be between a man and a woman
* e.. To remove any protection any court may find for child pornography
* f.. To allow Congress to pass laws for emergency replenishment of its
membership should more than a quarter of either house be killed
* g.. To place Presidential nominees immediately into position, providing
the Senate with 120 days to reject the nominee before the appointment is
automatically permanent
107th Congress (2001-2002)
* a.. Calling for the repeal of the 8th Amendment and its replacement with
wording prohibiting incarceration for minor traffic offenses
* b.. To specify that progressive income taxes must be used
* c.. To specify a right to "equal high quality" health care
* d.. To limit pardons granted between October 1 and January 21 of any
presidential election year
* e.. To require a balanced budget without use of Social Security Trust Fund
monies
* f.. To allow for any person who has been a citizen of the United States
for twenty years or more to be eligible for the Presidency
* g.. To force the members of Congress and the President to forfeit their
salary, on a per diem basis, for every day past the end of the fiscal year
that a budget for that year remains unpassed
Courtesy of:http://www.usconstitution.net/constamprop.html
Dang The US Congress Didn't Do All That . . .
i did not know that they had
accomplished so much ~ RHF