At 08:49 AM 2/28/2004 -0700 Michael Harney wrote:
>Yes, and the national amendment process can take up to seven years after
>it's already been passed in both the House and the Senate.
>
>Let's see, leave it to the states: 2 years. Deal with it on a national
>level: 7 years. Methinks you have your proirities backwards. If other
>states are affraid of "judicial activism", they can amend their own
>constitutions a lot faster than you can amend the US Constitution.
A US Constitutional Amendment can, from time to time, move more quickly
than that.
In addition, if federal judges are anything like those in Massachusetts,
they will likely in short order find the Defense of Marriage Act
unconstitutional, thus necessitating a Federal Marriage Amendment.
JDG - The clock is running....
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