Originally posted by Chairboy
I think it's a good idea, but I have a couple of questions.
I think the 19th amendment is a Good Thing. How would the Lazs party deal with this? (Women being given the vote)
How about the 24th? It's a federalist amendment, but it was a response to a real problem. Do you think losing it would create disenfranchisement or was it something that no longer has a purpose?
Obviously there are some things that were added as amendments to the Constitution to change our ways of thinking about things, not to counter anything that was spelled out previously. The Constitution did not previously establish poll taxes, those were done at the local and state levels as a way of providing loopholes to short circuit the 14th amendment. Given the social pressures that have built up since then to oppose such actions, and given that it never had Constitutional sanction to start with, I really think the 24th is redundant now. I'd have to say the same of the 19th. Once women legally established the right to vote, it became a part of our culture. Removing the amendment forcing us to let them vote would not change the reality at this point.
I would like to see Amendments 17 and 20 kept, if only to make transitions easier and prevent imbalances in representation.
