Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!testsys.austin.ibm.com!mbrown From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <7107@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 91 15:23:59 GMT References: <1991Apr28.061119.18402@eecs.nwu.edu> <4364.2816d635@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1991Apr26.141044.7544@alphalpha.com> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown) Lines: 33 ptownson@eecs.nwu.edu (Patrick A. Townson) writes: | (Kee Hinckley) writes: | > herrickd@iccgcc. 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 Constitution and *anything* | > can be changed. | No, it should *really* be noted that this option is only avoided like | the plague by lawyers, ACLU-types, and other stupid liberals who want | to save us from ourselves ... ...and by those Conservatives who don't want new liberties (ERA, Privacy) added... | Good heavens! The idea of the unwashed masses of the American public | having any actual say-so in how they are governed? I think a CC would | | I wish you would recall that it is supposed to be 'we the people' who | do the governing, make the laws and decide how things are done ... why | aren't we allowed to do it any longer? It seems Pat would have us forget the Founding Fathers' well-documented fears on this very subject....something about a "tyranny of the majority"... XREF: Electoral College, Bicameral Legislature. Mark Brown IBM PSP Austin, TX. (512) 823-3741 VNET: MBROWN@AUSVMQ MAIL: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com OR uunet!testsys.austin.ibm.com!mbrown Which came first: The Chicken or the Legba? DISCLAIMER: Any personal opinions stated here are just that.