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    Default H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5

    AMENDMENT XXII
    Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951.

    Section 1.
    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

    Section 2.
    This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    not good....not good at all!

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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    It's DOA. This session of Congress is almost over and it's been in subcommittee for 11 months. Not even a co sponsor.

    Personally, I doubt we'll ever see another Amendment to the Constitution. We have a hard time getting much more then a 50% vote for crap in Congress. And Amendments take 66% if I'm not mistaken. It also would have to go to the states and 3/4ths would have to vote for it in a Constitutional Convention.

    Or something along those lines. Seems they are somehow able to bypass the Convention at times but I don't think that would be possible any more. Most of the people in this country are already pissed at DC and bypassing any portion in getting an Amendment would cause even more havoc.

    I had thought the last Amendment was the 26th (18 years old to vote). Something about sending our boys to war but not allowed to vote. But it seems Congress was somehow able to pass the 27th having to do with their pay. Don't remember much talk about it. But then my memory is starting to fade.
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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    Wonderful! Aside from TRAMPLING our constitution, lets just say the hell wih it all together and MODIFY AND REMOVE THINGS as we see fit...

    Not a good thing at all...
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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    Introduced almost a year ago and it has no cosponsors? Not even worth the post. Amendments are essentially worthless now anyway. I'm sure if they wanted to congress could push some sort of act through, using some sort of catastrophe as a stepping stone, to extend the presidential term limit.

    They bypass the constitution all the time with crap like that.

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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveinNEPA View Post
    Wonderful! Aside from TRAMPLING our constitution, lets just say the hell wih it all together and MODIFY AND REMOVE THINGS as we see fit...

    Not a good thing at all...
    ~Steve
    It's just the start. If they can have their way they will remove the constitution altogether.

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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    hmmm....king obama?

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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveinNEPA View Post
    Wonderful! Aside from TRAMPLING our constitution, lets just say the hell wih it all together and MODIFY AND REMOVE THINGS as we see fit...

    Not a good thing at all...
    ~Steve
    Without opining on the relative merits of the 22nd Amendment, I will say that using the exact same procedure by which the 22nd Amendment was created in order to repeal it is hardly "trampling our constitution".
    Almost a LIB .... ertarian

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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    Better they repeal the 17th Amendment. It used to be that senators were elected by state legislatures, and therefore represented their individual states. Now senators are elected by the people, and represent the people. Members of congress are elected by the people, and represent the people. Nobody represents the individual states which make up our union.

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    Default Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment

    this pops up all the time. need to keep an eye in case one of them picks up momentum, but this one is stagnet.

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