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Originally Posted by Badger52

It was posted as information with the ongoing discussion of constitutional convention so, yeah, I was effing serious. I don't subscribe to the notion that someone's credentials abrogates another's view. Something to consider, in whole or in part. It's a viewpoint but, as Pete pointed out, there are two edges on that convention blade.

Have a nice day.

Badger, I retract all I said in that post. It wasn't the content so much as what I saw as a really screwy website. Apparently it didn't load correctly in my browser and those links on the right side were somehow mixed into the rest of the text. It looked like it was built by a crazy person (i.e. nutcase). I just went back and it looks fine. I'll read through it the way it was meant to be formatted.

IE auto-updated on the 10th and I've had several problems with it. That's the first time I have seen that problem, though.

ETA: I have now read through the posted site and my first impression, thanks to a glitch in IE11, may have been correct. I came away with a headache both times. The second time mostly due to all of the hyper links included (which I gave up on). At times, she seems to quote Levin but only a few words are actually between the quotation marks. She stated that, since the states would have to apply to Congress to call for a convention, that Congress would set the rules and even pick the participants. Nothing in Article Five says that. Given the time it was written, this may just have been a convenient means of ensuring communication between the states. We have phones, now. Plus, one of Levin's amendments would remove that requirement because even he is worried that it will be used to stall the process.

Again, Levin worked in the Reagan Administration: (from Wikipedia--sorry I don't want to dig around for a different source while I'm cooking) Beginning in 1981, Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan's cabinet, eventually becoming Associate Director of Presidential Personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese; Levin also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and Deputy Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior."

I have never heard of this Publius Huldah person but this caught my eye from the profile on her site: "There is no such thing as Jew & Greek, slave & freeman, male & female, black person & white person; for we are all one person in Christ Jesus." It may come as no surprise that Levin is a Jew.

I'll stick with Levin. Unfortunately, I believe even his plan will take too long to save the Republic.

Pat