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December 13th, 2009, 01:16 AM #1
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.Honesta Mors Turpi Vita Potior ~ 3%
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December 13th, 2009, 01:27 AM #2
Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment
not good....not good at all!
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December 13th, 2009, 06:12 AM #3
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.Last edited by stephpd; December 13th, 2009 at 06:15 AM.
Divided we ever have been, and ever must be.Two thirds always had and will have more difficulty to struggle with the one third than with all our foreign enemies. - John Adams
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December 13th, 2009, 06:12 AM #4
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...
~Steve
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December 13th, 2009, 08:47 AM #5
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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December 13th, 2009, 08:49 AM #6
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December 13th, 2009, 01:28 PM #7Banned
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hmmm....king obama?
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Re: H.J. Res. 5: Proposing to Repeal the 22cd Amendment
Almost a LIB .... ertarian
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December 17th, 2009, 11:50 PM #9
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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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December 18th, 2009, 09:21 AM #10Banned
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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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