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Exactly. In the worst case, if an obstructionist minority of states were to block an overwhelmingly popular and desperately needed amendment, a sufficiently large number of states could simply write a new Constitution. After all, that's exactly how the current U.S. Constitution got put into place.

Hopefully this doesn't result in another civil war over the issue of gun control. (The current stance seems to be to allow individual states great latitude in how they interpret the 2nd amendment.)




Great. Another knee-jerk downvote on a comment that is neither for nor against.




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