RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 28, 2015 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2015 at 10:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 28, 2015 at 9:01 am)Jenny A Wrote:We can amend, we cannot remove - as your quote explains very specifically. The practical effect of that amendment may be equal to removing something, when it is, we say that the amendment has "repealed" something. We can certainly come up with an amendment which has the practical effect of removing a right, but we cannot simply remove it - we can't just erase it from the document. We can't say "fuck your 2nd amendment", which is what was proposed.(August 28, 2015 at 8:53 am)Rhythm Wrote: Our amendments can't -remove- a right. Doesn't work like that.
Why not?
Quote:The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution
With the exception of the states being equally represented in the Senate, I don't anything about not amending away rights.
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