[83198] in Cypherpunks

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: "The Failure to Do Your Job" amendment (was Re: White House ...)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Wed Jul 16 22:51:59 1997

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:11:28 -0400 (edt)
From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
To: John Deters <jad@dsddhc.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970716141513.00ae82f0@labg30>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, John Deters wrote:

> A Constitutional amendment that would call for the impeachment of the
> President for failing to veto any three bills that are overturned by the
> Supreme Court on Constitutional grounds.

Whole bill?  One little amendment to a *large* bill?  (CDA being part of
the Telecommunications Act of 1996.... hmmmm..)

Not a bad idea, but it suffers from the same problems we discussed about a
month ago regarding members of Congress...

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere>     "Who knows, even the horse might sing" 
Wayne State University - CULMA   "May you live in interesting times.."
randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu                        Ohio = VYI of the USA 
PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57  E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post