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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould you accept 12 Federal Districts in place of the current states???
Could be if we get a convention.
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Would you accept 12 Federal Districts in place of the current states??? (Original Post)
CK_John
May 2018
OP
Please don't confuse an "Article V Convention" with a "Constitutional Convention"...
PoliticAverse
May 2018
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. Please don't confuse an "Article V Convention" with a "Constitutional Convention"...
and 34 states aren't voting to replace themselves with 12 Federal Districts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
CK_John
(10,005 posts)4. Groups have 33 states and waiting for only 1 more and could change
The structure.
A Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also called an Article V Convention, or Amendments Convention, called for by two-thirds (currently 34) of the state legislatures,
FirstLight
(13,357 posts)2. ummm...
I thought you were making a Hunger Games/Mocking Jay reference...
Codeine
(25,586 posts)3. Never going to happen. nt
CK_John
(10,005 posts)8. That's why so many play the power ball.
Takket
(21,529 posts)5. no the rethugs would just gerrymander all of the Dems into 1
& n/t
roamer65
(36,744 posts)7. No. I'd be in favor of secession and MI joining the Canadian confederation...
*IF* the Constitution is opened up for wholesale changes.
A secession clause would need to be added similar to the EUs Article 50, for states not satisfied with the changes.
In other words, I do not want these dirtbags messing around with the Constitution.