If (more like when) we win next month - can the US call

Joe for Clark

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Wed Oct-11-06 04:42 PM
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If (more like when) we win next month - can the US call

for a referendum (like California did) and call back Clinton to run the country til the next election??

California did it. And were 1/5th of the GDP of the country.

Bet 2/3rds of the country would support it right now.

Were a republic first, right???

Joe

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Cooley Hurd

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Wed Oct-11-06 04:55 PM
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1. It would require serious constitutional wrangling...

...and I think the incoming Dem majority is going to be busy enough with getting the present corruption under control. :)

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Joe for Clark

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Wed Oct-11-06 05:03 PM
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3. I think it may ideed be a valid question. We are a republic

first. The notion of being a representative democracy really started in the 1820's.

I can't remember who exactly - which Supreme Court Justice said - (I think it may have been Jackson) that the constitution is not a suicide pact.

Anyway, California invalidated an election by a referendum - a few months after the election!!

So, given these very strange circumstances - isn't it possible to do the same thing on a larger scale?? What if 2 out of 3 people think it is the best thing to do - what then??

Joe

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TechBear_Seattle

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Wed Oct-11-06 04:58 PM
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2. Several problems with your idea...

There is no referendum on the national level.

Clinton has served his time as president and could not come back in that capacity.

By the time appropriate amendments were made and ratified, the 2008 election would be in full swing anyway.

Do you really want to eliminate or modify the one thing that is preventing Bush from serving a third term?

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Joe for Clark

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Wed Oct-11-06 05:25 PM
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4. If we are indeed a republic - then it is implied.

Amend what?? The constitution - like that justice said - it is not a suicide pact. And the idea of us being a "representative democracy" occured 50 years AFTER the constituion was signed.

Forget B*sh here - we all have opinions about him - but isn't it possible that thru "seemingly democratic" means, an insane SOB could take control of the country - possible, right??
And place stooges in a line of sucession, too.

What are we supposed to do - -roll over??

I don't mean to be obtuse about this - but if we are a republic first - there are a series on conotations implied.

Joe

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