2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Which requires 2/3rds of the state legislatures once it is approved by the US Congress.
You need to read your fucking US Constitution to understand how things work under a fucking constitutional republic.
Some people think that some things are just laws. Then again, there's the fucking US Constitution, which has served us all fairly well in most times, but is nevertheless imperfect.
There is a reason why it is so God damned difficult to amend it. That's because we don't want any damned knee jerk asshole jerking (or collection of knee jerk assholes) our freedoms out from under us.
I put this as plainly as I could, in plain language.
The US Constitution! All citizens should fucking read it!
I am not swearing at you. I am just swearing because this is a passion to me and I find ignorance of such topics to be very unfortunate.