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The Constitution and the Amendments already in place are largely being ignored already. Beyond that, changes have been made to the Constitution via the Torture Law without the legal Amendment and ratification process. It would appear to me that secret ammendments would not be needed because Bush and his Cabal of criminals can simply take care of anything with a signing statement... because nobody is standing up to stop them.
by tsoldrin on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 07:30:10 AM PDT
I was interested that yesterday Lantos basically said, we have to ignore signing statements because they are a fiction. My amendments are simply an attempt to focus the question on what means are available to deal with extraconstitutional actions you are talking about -- I acknowledge that in the diary itself, but I see from the comments that people don't think such a thought experiment has much value.
"Stare at the monster: remark/ How difficult it is to define just what/ Amounts to monstrosity in that/ Very ordinary appearance." - Ted Hughes
by MarkC on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 07:51:02 AM PDT
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