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Article: Playing chicken with the constitution: the NRA's Wayne LaPierre proposes using the threat of a constitutional convention to pressure Congress to repeal the anti-free speech provisions in the McCain-Feingold law.(Constitution)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- April 19, 2004
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The clear language of the Constitution is often violated and circumvented by elected and appointed officials entrusted to honor and defend it. However, so long as the Constitution is kept intact as the highest law of the land, there is still realistic hope that the federal government will begin operating within its strictures once again. All that is necessary is for an aroused and organized citizenry to apply informed pressure on their elected officials--particularly their congressmen--to do what they promised they would do when they took their oath of office.
Congress could repeal harmful legislation such as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly ...