RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 28, 2015 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2015 at 10:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 28, 2015 at 10:22 am)Jenny A Wrote:(August 28, 2015 at 10:07 am)Rhythm 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 The practical effect of that amendment may be equal to removing something, when it is, we say that the amendment has "repealed" something.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.
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.
Even a repealed right remains.....waiting for the next amendment. The things we put on the page never go away. If you don't see the nuance there, then you don't see the manuovering room that our politicians have come to love and depend upon. Any hypothetical amendment cannot say "Amendment X to the constitution is that there is no amendment 2." It -can- place so many additional qualifiers upon amendment 2 that, in effect, no one qualifies. Again, your quote states, explicitly, that we are empowered to amend, not to remove...which is why we don't say remove, but repealed. I agree that it's duplicitous......but it is what it is, and I'm not who made it that way, lol.
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