Chucking the electoral college

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 14 07:53:36 PST 2000


kelley wrote:


>next: get rid of the Senate! (where, by the way, all e.c. reform
>usually dies)

How? Got a plan to get every state to consent to it? From the sacred text itself:


>Article V
>
>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.



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