constitutional amendments

Former justice Stevens wants to change Constitution (USA Today) Synopsis: He proposes six amendments to the US constitution. Analysis: The one I like -- Change the 8th Amendment explicitly to prohibit the death penalty. The others -- A veritable shopping list of too much power to the...

Republicans want to make a constitutional amendment a condition for agreeing to raise the debt ceiling. This constitutional amendment would cap government spending at 18% of GDP (which has never been done since 1966, and even Paul Ryan's "radical right-wing social engineering" wouldn't qualify)...

Palin breaks with McCain on gay-marriage ban Just remember, Gov. Palin, energizing the base might energize the opposition more. Social conservatism is a cancer that needs to be excised from our country's collective consciousness.

I had an interesting discussion on this topic the other day, and thought as my first thread to bring up the topic here. There was a similar thread back in 2006, but I wasn't here then, and rather than resurrect the old thread I decided to start a new one. So, if you could make changes to the...

Proposed text; "Physical coercion or threat thereof shall not be used by the United States nor its military forces nor their contractors nor any other third parties reporting to the United States in the questioning of prisoners regardless of their nation of citizenship and regardless of the...