{"id":2446,"date":"2010-08-03T01:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T08:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2010-08-03T01:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T08:52:22","slug":"constitutional-amendments-articles-xxi-and-xxii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/constitutional-amendments-articles-xxi-and-xxii\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Amendments: Articles XXI and XXII"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have been covering the US Constitution line by line.  When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies.  We have finished the main body of the Constitution.  Now we continue with the Amendments.  You can find the last article on the main body of the Constitution<\/font> here<\/a>. It has links to all the others.  The text comes from<\/font> The US Constitution<\/a>.  Previous articles in the Amendment series:<\/font><\/p>\n

Article I<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles II and III<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article IV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article V<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VI<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VIII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles IX and X<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles XI and XII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XIII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XIV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XVI<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XVII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XVIII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article IX<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XX<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n

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Article [XXI]<\/h3>\n
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1:  The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. <\/p>\n

2:  The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.<\/p>\n

3:  This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Twenty first Amendment repeals the Eighteenth, prohibition.  It was ratified in 1933.  <\/font><\/p>\n

Clause 2 provides authority for states to regulate the import and use of alcohol within their respective borders.<\/font><\/p>\n

Clause three provides a seven year time limit for ratification.<\/font><\/p>\n

We covered the controversial aspects of prohibition in our study of the Eighteenth Amendment, so I shall not repeat that.<\/font><\/p>\n

Amendment XXII<\/h3>\n
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1:  No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.  But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.<\/p>\n

2:  This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ratified in 1951, the Twenty second Amendment limits a President to two elective terms.  Clause 2 contains a seven year time limit.  It is not controversial.  However, there was talk, during the second term of the Bush Regime, about staging a Reichstag Fire <\/em>and suspending elections to keep Bush in office beyond his second term.  With the economy spiraling out of control, due to their malfeasance, Republicans decided it might be better to lose power and blame the Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n

I shall try to put up a new article in this series almost every day.  It will take some time to cover it all, but when we\u2019re done, we shall be immune to the lies with which Republicans seek to undermine our freedoms.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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