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Jake
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« on: December 12, 2004, 06:26:49 PM »

This is a thread for the discussion of the possibility of having a new constitutional amendment as Attorney General Peter Bell has brought up.

At this current juncture in time I have no opinion on whether or not the current constitution should be greatly amended or replaced with an entirely new constitution, however I think we can all agree that the current constitution does suffer from a number of faults.

If we are going to have a new constitutional convention, though, we need to do it right.  We need to have each region elect delegates to be sent to a continental congress that will draft a new constitution.  The new document would then need to be ratified by a vote of three or four regions.  These votes could be conducted by referendum or by regional legislatures.

And any new constitution would effectively render every bill, resolution, and amendment passed by this body null and void.  We would have to spend some time revoting on past bills that we wish to keep.

I support the idea of a new Constitution. Peter Bell and Ernest seem to be good candidates for the head of the convention if we ever have one. I would say 3-5 members per region with representation from all the major parties required.
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Jake
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2004, 10:43:25 PM »

I could support the idea of a new constitution ONLY if the laws already passed don't have to be declared null and void as a result.  The various Senates have done too much work to have it all thrown away.  If that is the way it has to be, I oppose ratifying a new constitution- lets fix the problems with the one we have.
I agree, though I assume evryone has a few laws they want thrown out Smiley
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Jake
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2004, 11:32:50 PM »
« Edited: December 12, 2004, 11:55:10 PM by dubya2004 »

Pete said it would take something like ten amendments to fix it. Why don't we redraft it, keep what is alright and finish it with one thing instead of ten. Either way, the way we conduct Constitutional Amendment votes needs to change. Post the vote in the thread like you would for an election.
Ugh. I was President at the time the first Convention was drafted. It took a full 2 months of work. I'd really rather not have to go down that road again. I think anything that needs changing can be accomplished with Amendments.
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