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Costitutional Conservative Talk show host, Mark Levin, in his new book </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span>The Liberty Amendments</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span> he is proposing a group of amendments to the United States Constitution to bring our country back to being a Republic again. <br />
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He focuses on an Article V of the US Constitution and the fact that it can be amended by the several States and that the States, working alone, do have the power to amend the constitution as a second option to the more usual process of going through the US Congress.<br />
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Article V<br />
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The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.<br />
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Levin feels the Constitution has been critically abused over time and that positive steps must be taken to correct this abuses.<br />
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&nbsp;Some of Levin</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span>s suggested amendments that he talks about in his book include:<br />
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1. Have an amendment that </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span>sunsets</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span> all federal departments and agencies, unless Congress reauthorizes them every three years by majority vote.&nbsp; Every big-ticket Executive Branch regulation would be subjected to review by a joint congressional committee.&nbsp; This amendment would pull the plug on the unstoppable federal bureaucracy, forcing every department to perpetually justify its existence, and terminating President Obama&rsquo;s beloved practice of circumventing Congress to legislate by decree.<br />
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2. Another Liberty Amendment would rein in the judicial branch, setting term limits for Supreme Court justices, and giving Congress the power to override Supreme Court opinions with a three-fifths vote, without risk of presidential veto.&nbsp; Three-fifths of the state legislatures could also join forces to knock down a Court decision.&nbsp; <br />
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3. Another amendment would seek to clarify language that already exists in the Constitution, such as the much-abused Commerce Clause &ndash; lately interpreted as a warrant for unlimited federal control of all human activity<br />
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4. Levin also suggests the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided for the direct election of United States senators.&nbsp; Senators were supposed to be instruments of the state legislatures, while the House of Representatives would be filled by popular vote.&nbsp; <br />
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Should the MI legislature pass legislation that would call for a convention to offer new amendments to the US Constitution?<br />
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