Senate? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Senate

A slight paraphrase on the title of fellow Renew America columnist Bruce Wilson who writes:

I think it’s time to do an end run on our out of touch senators. The framers of the Constitution wisely recognized that an alternative process to amend the Constitution might be necessary in order to bypass an unresponsive Senate. Specifically, the Constitution states that a two-thirds vote in the Senate can initiate an amendment, “or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments…”

Thus if thirty-four states support a constitutional amendment, the Senate is obligated to call a convention in which the amendment would be approved by convention delegates, essentially bypassing the Senate in the process.

The problem with Wilson’s idea is that politicians are really hesitant about using these old devices lying in the constitution dormant, plus there’s general fear of what can happen with a Constitutional Convention. I think you would not get a call for a Convention until there was a crisis point and then you might be able to get it if the homosexual movement didn’t continue to succeed in its propoganda campaign.

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