(August 28, 2015 at 10:07 am)Rhythm Wrote:(August 28, 2015 at 9:01 am)Jenny A Wrote: Why not?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 The practical effect of that amendment may be equal to removing something, when it is, we say that the amendment has "repealed" something.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.
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.
Um no. You said we couldn't amend to take away a right. And we can in the manner you just suggested, we could pass an amendment repealing or drastically altering the 2nd Amendment. If repealing isn't taking away, I don't what is.
----Practically it isn't going to happen because Congress isn't going to propose it and the states wouldn't ratify it if they did.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
