Discuss how we can hasten progress towards enlarging representation. There are two primary components to this: 1) educating others in order to gain the necessary public support; and, 2) ensuring implementation via a constitutional amendment or other legal means.
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Epicurus
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With Connecticut, it's a done deal, isn't it?

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"Both Connecticut AND Kentucky were found. . . . With Ct. and Ky, that's 12 of the then 15 States, or 80%. Once the 75% threshold for ratification is crossed, it may not be un-crossed."

If Connecticut and/or Kentucky ratified the original 12 amendments, Article the First is a valid amendment. Right now.

Do we live in a nation of laws or not? Or is that just another lie we tell ourselves?
StriderV
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Re: With Connecticut, it's a done deal, isn't it?

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You would think so. I don't know why it hasn't gone forward yet.

Those in power don't want the change, and we the mere citizens, are too lazy to care.
Epicurus
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Re: With Connecticut, it's a done deal, isn't it?

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I have done some reading since I made that post.

Eugene LaVergne filed an excellent brief in the U.S. 3d Circuit Court of Appeals which you can read here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/94139261/Fina ... d-Addendum

Having lost in the District Court and the Court of Appeals, he filed a petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court. It was denied.

Using one of their standard tricks, the Federal courts are dodging the substantive issues in the case claiming that whether or not an amendment to the Constitution has been properly ratified by at least 75% of the states is a "political question."

In other words, the Supreme Court is going to give Congress the power to decide whether or not a properly ratified amendment is part of the Constitution.

Wow! The House can overrule the states on constitutional amendments. Where does the Constitution say that?

And of course House members will vote to drastically reduce their own power by expanding their number, right?

Let's face reality. We really don't live in the country we were taught about. The country described by our teachers is a fiction.
Epicurus
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Re: With Connecticut, it's a done deal, isn't it?

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StriderV wrote:we the mere citizens are too lazy to care.
What really shocks me is that almost no one seems to care about being truly represented in the House. They don't care if their congressperson represents their views or not, or if their congressperson has the time to read their letters or meet with them or not!

One would think that the Tea Party groups would take this issue up. Nope. They think increasing the number of representatives is the same as increasing "big government." By that standard, a dictator would be the smallest government of all.

The number of people who care about this issue right now could be taken out with one hellfire missile.
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