sethnintendo said:
Marks said:
Mr Khan said:
Marks said:
Damn, that's rough. Has an amendment ever been removed before?
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Only the 18th, which was removed by the 21st, but that was prohibition
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Ahh okay so definitely not an easy task. I think it could be made easier considering how desperate the times are, ending the fed could start to get rid of tons of US debt and end inflation/devaluation of the dollar.
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Actually, I think people had enough of the fed that they would vote for an amendment to abolish the fed. I don't see any state voting down an amendment to abolish them. Almost everyone dislikes the fed right now.
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You also need a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. Would not happen when so many financial institutions benefit massively from the current situation, and both political parties have atleast some element that believes in deficit spending - which the fed can facilitate.
I think public mandate, coupled with a Ron Paul presidency (early on in his term), would allow for a bill conducting an audit to pass, and maybe some light tinkering around the edges. The only kind of constitutional reform that could pass would be one that isn't limiting on the current congress - say a balanced-budget amendment that doesn't come into effect until 2020. Ron Paul could still run a balanced budget earlier, but the constitution wouldn't limit it until 2020.