From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 04:39:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
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> Date: 19 Jan 1998 20:20:01 -0000
> From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
> Subject: Congress' *real* job...

> Be careful what you wish for. This Congress is far more likely to pass
> amendments nullifying the 2nd, the 1st, the 6th, the 4th, and others. And
> they'll probably rewrite the 13th to read "no involuntary servitude...unless
> we say so."

For Congress to pass a single amendment they must get 3/4 of the states to
ratify the amendment. That's the check that keeps Congress from going nuts
and gives the individual states a measure of equality.


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