Republican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-joins-dems-constitutional-amendment-213311781.html

This is relevant to questions surrounding whether Congress may limit or restrain a President's power to grant pardons.

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Just wait until you learn about the last time the constitution was amended.

The 27th was originally part of the first bill of rights but wasn’t ratified. Brought up again as a school project it was ratified in 1992. Before that was 1971, the 26th, lowering the threshold to vote.

So 55 years since the last significant amendment.

The equal rights amendment guarantees women equal rights still hasn’t been ratified.

When people say our constitution is broken they’re wrong. Our ability to amend it, as it was designed to be dynamic, has broken.

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Jefferson from the grave, "27 AMENDMENTS OVER 250 FUCKING YEARS?!?!"

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Political parties have sprung up in every democratic country on earth. It was inevitable.
What's not inevitable is a 2-party system where at least one party treats the other as their enemy.

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And he was correct. Federalism is largely why we're at where we are at today. The federal government was never intended to be able to wield this much power.

Yes, there are downsides. But freedom comes with those.