10th November 2012, 4:22 PM
I hadn't heard of that movement at all. I would love to see some republicans get mad enough to push for something similar, but consider that if it ever reached that point, there may be some serious push back for using such a mechanism to de facto "overrule" the constitution. I'd love for it to take effect, but this means does lead to some possible serious objection from the populations of any states that shoot down such a thing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)