Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <1991Apr26.141044.7544@alphalpha.com> Date: 26 Apr 91 14:10:44 GMT References: <1455@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> <1475@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> <4364.2816d635@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Organization: asi Lines: 15 In article <4364.2816d635@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >The other is to get three-quarters of the state legislatures to >petition Congress to call a Constitutional Convention, at which >time Congress has no option but to call the convention. It should be noted that this option is avoided like the plague, since once a CC is convened it's open season on the Consitution and *anything* can be changed. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.