Did AMA's term limits start something?
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AMA's idea of "term limits" (
) may have started something much more significant.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hj111
) may have started something much more significant.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hj111
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Horace, bad link, check the details please.
Horace, bad link, check the details please.
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Horace, bad link, check the details please.
Horace, bad link, check the details please.
Try this: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill...d?bill=hj111-5
It has to do with a new proposed admendment submitted to initiate a new U.S. Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the 22nd amemdment limiting the Pres. to 2 terms.
I just copied this one and pasted into browser and it worked.
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Hoss, I believe they have to have a constitutional convention to do anything like that. And I also believe one of those would not be a good idea, because they end up trying to change a lot of other things at the same time, while they have everybody together at one of'em....[:'(]
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Hoss, I believe they have to have a constitutional convention to do anything like that. And I also believe one of those would not be a good idea, because they end up trying to change a lot of other things at the same time, while they have everybody together at one of'em....[:'(]
Hoss, I believe they have to have a constitutional convention to do anything like that. And I also believe one of those would not be a good idea, because they end up trying to change a lot of other things at the same time, while they have everybody together at one of'em....[:'(]

I don't think a constitutional convention is required. If the resolution passes congress with the required majorities, it then goes to the several state legislatures for ratification. If enough states ratify within the alloted time period, then the ammendment goes into effect.
I think.
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Hoss, I believe they have to have a constitutional convention to do anything like that. And I also believe one of those would not be a good idea, because they end up trying to change a lot of other things at the same time, while they have everybody together at one of'em....[:'(]
Hoss, I believe they have to have a constitutional convention to do anything like that. And I also believe one of those would not be a good idea, because they end up trying to change a lot of other things at the same time, while they have everybody together at one of'em....[:'(]
Good example is Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States
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In the history of the United States, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, is the period from 1919 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Under substantial pressure from the temperance movement, the United States Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. Having been approved by 36 states, the 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919 and effected on January 16, 1920. Some state legislatures had already enacted statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the 18th Amendment.
The "Volstead Act", the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, passed through Congress over President Woodrow Wilson's veto on October 28, 1919 and established the legal definition of intoxicating liquor[1]. Though the Volstead Act prohibited the sale of alcohol, it did little to enforce the law. The illegal production and distribution of liquor, or bootlegging, became rampant, and the national government did not have the means or desire to enforce every border, lake, river, and speakeasy in America. In fact, by 1925 in New York City alone there were anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 speakeasy clubs.[2]
Prohibition became increasingly unpopular during the Great Depression, especially in large cities. On March 23, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of certain kinds of alcoholic beverages.
On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.




