[15545] in APO-L
Re: Promises/Constitution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (High Lord of Chaos)
Wed Nov 13 12:40:20 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 22:46:44 -0800
Reply-To: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
From: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
> I have a copy of the U.S. constitution here and according to it, if two thirds of both
> houses of congress propose, and three fourths of the states ratify an amendment to the
> constitution making it 'suspend able', then in fact, the government could suspend the
> constitution and do whatever the heck it wanted.
It can also be suspended by Presidential Order in wartime. And according
to a newspaper article I read a few weeks ago, Bush suspended it during the
Iraq war, and it's been suspended ever since.
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