Bush for Life: GOP introduces new bill to Congress

Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign | 13.06.2005 22:24

Republicans have officially started the the campaign to amend the Constitution by repealing the 22nd Amendment - the one that confines the President to two terms. If the Republicans hold their current strength, or increase it, in the 2006 Congressional elections, expect this measure to pass allowing Bush to remain President...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.J.RES.24.IH: (Notice this is on the Library of Congress server, where the current Congressional record is maintained)

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)

HJ 24 IH
109th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. J. RES. 24
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 17, 2005

Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

`Article --

`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.

Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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ironic..

14.06.2005 14:26

..when you consider it was the Republicans who originally proposed the 22nd Amendment after Democrat Roosevelt had beaten them hollow for the third time.

Actually it did subsequently stop them running Eisenhower for a third term so there was already some poetic justice there...

But what bets on them also proposing a new Amendment to allow non-US-born citizens to run for President, thus opening the door for Arnie 2008 or 2012?

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Just so you know

14.06.2005 22:47

I wouldn't bother posting a comment to such siliness on one of our own sites. But some of you here might not understand how this process works >

Since it's a 2/3 majority in both houses required, presidential signature is moot (2/3 in both would override a veto). But passing in Congress is just the first, perhaps easiest part of adopting an ammendment.

The next step is that the passed ammendment must be ratified by a majority vote in the legislatures of 3/4 of the states. In other words, any 13 states can "veto" an ammendment. Well not exactly, because a "no" vote wouldn't be final. The actual process is that there is a certain amount of time (generally 10 years) alloted for an ammendment to collect the necessary ratification of 3/4 of the states and presumably during that time various states could change their minds. The point is that if at any time during the period 38 states were in the "yes" column the proposed ammendment would have been adopted as part of the Constitution. And yes, there have been proposed ammendments which passed Congress but failed in the ratification process.

It is not easy to ammend the US Constitution.

Mike
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Bush for Life: GOP introduces new bill to Congress

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ironic..

Just so you know