On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:54:13AM -0600, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > It is in the basics of constitutional law. We cannot explicitly decide > not to enforce the text of a foundation document, making an exception to > its application, without reaching the quorum that would be necessary to > excluding that text entirely and forever.
Enforcement of the foundation documents is not defined in the constitution, so no, this is not a question of constitutional law. > For a broader and easier to understand example, guess what would happen if > Congress needed a 3:1 supermajority to amend a country's constitution, but > only needed a 1:1 majority to say that "actually, for the next couple of > months, you don't need all this civil liberties crap, and we are > suspending it". I'm not sure if you're being deliberately ironic here, or if you're just somehow unfamiliar with the past 7 years of US history? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
