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posted by martyb on Friday December 11 2015, @05:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the pandora's-box dept.

The U.S. Constitution has 27 amendments; each was proposed by Congress and ratified by the states.

However, the Constitution sets forth another procedure, never before used, for amending the Constitution. At the request of two thirds of the states, a constitutional convention would be held, at which amendments could be proposed. Any proposals would become part of the Constitution if three fourths of the states ratified them, either at state conventions or in the state legislatures.

Currently, 27 of the needed 34 states have petitioned Congress for a constitutional convention, for the ostensible purpose of writing a balanced-budget amendment (BBA). However, the convention might propose other changes in addition or instead of a BBA—even a total rewrite of the Constitution—if 38 states agreed, the changes would become law.

In November, legislators from 30 states met in Salt Lake City to discuss the matter.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Friday December 11 2015, @02:45PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 11 2015, @02:45PM (#274978)

    There is a correlation between websites' use of javascript and paranoia levels. Less than 20 lines attracts people who are already paranoid and greater than 500 lines causes paranoia.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @04:53PM (#275023)

    Soylent loads approx. 20KiB of scripts. Is that enough to be paranoid about?

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday December 11 2015, @06:49PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 11 2015, @06:49PM (#275091)

      Hah, you're right. Just checked it out and there is an xpath library that is 9.4KB (used for manipulating elements on the page) and the collapsible comments bit is surprising large at 6.2KB. Though it is optional javascript.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:24PM (#275187)

      Soylent loads approx. 20KiB of scripts

      Not for me. (I don't even see that in my list of blocked stuff.)

      The only non-text thing I bother to download here is star.png in order to see who is a donor (and wants to advertise that).
      N.B. If link text (e.g. an asterisk) was used with those (listening paule72|Buzzard?), that star would work in text-only browsers|configurations.

      I see nothing missing due to not allowing JavaScript.

      The only things I miss are:
      1) Long URLs are not folded at the right edge of the page (formerly done in HTML via whitespace).
      2) When someone marks text with the quote pseudotag (instead of the standard blockquote tag), that is not differentiated from normal text for me.

      Those 2 things are in a stylesheet.

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