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Old 10-19-2006, 10:25 AM   #14 (permalink)
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This was a relatively quiet year for bills in Congress proposing to amend the Constitution. Most never get more than a handful of sponsors.

Just a sample:

* To ensure reproductive rights of women
* To force the Congress and President to agree to a balanced budget, with overspending allowed only in the case of a three-fifths vote of Congress
* To ensure that all children who are citizens have a right to a "free and adequate education"
* To specifically permit prayer at school meetings and ceremonies
* To allow non-natural born citizens to become President if they have been a citizen for 20 years
* To specifically allow Congress to regulate the amount of personal funds a candidate to public office can expend in a campaign
* To ensure that apportionment of Representatives be set by counting only citizens
* To make the filibuster in the Senate a part of the Constitution
* To provide for continuity of government in case of a catastrophic event
* The "Every Vote Counts" Amendment - providing for direct election of the President and Vice President, abolishing the Electoral College
* To clarify eminent domain, specifically that no takings can be transferred to a private person except for transportation projects
* Providing a right to work, for equal pay for equal work, the right to organize, and the right to favorable work conditions
* To allow the President to reduce any Congressional appropriation, or to disapprove of same (ie: a line-item veto)
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