(09-26-2020, 11:09 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Umm, that why we have that thing called the amendment process.

It's too hard to start and too hard to finish.
It should start automatically whenever the supreme Court strikes a law down.
Or it should start at regular intervals, maybe once every 10 years.
The founders thought that the state governments would petition the federal government to start the process. They wrote in article V, that if two thirds of the States ever signed on to such a petition, a process to amend would start. A time and a place for a convention would be set, and delegates would be sent from all states.
even though it's really hard to get 34 states to agree on something, it has actually happened! US Congress has received petitions from 34 different states, for a balanced budget amendment, and term limits. Yet the petitions were ignored and the convention never took place.
The amendment process simply doesn't work.

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