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7. Barring adoption of a completely new constitution, no amendment from the Bill of Rights will EVER...

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 05:30 PM

Dec 2012

be repealed. It has been demonstrably easier to ignore the amendments than to repeal them. See patriot act, wiretapping, etc.

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Measuring the likelihood of Repealing the 2nd Amendment [View all] cthulu2016 Dec 2012 OP

This appears to be an unusually boring OP cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #1

I have to correct you on one technical point slackmaster Dec 2012 #2

Whoops! thank you cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #6

You're going to need a Micrometer for that sort of measurement OneTenthofOnePercent Dec 2012 #3

It's boring because it's sheerly an exercise in abstraction. closeupready Dec 2012 #4

About as likely as women's suffrage was in 1848 alcibiades_mystery Dec 2012 #5

Heck, I'd say 1870. cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #9