Ted Cruz: Can't touch this

tay

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Somebody's got too much free time.......




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just a few months ago, Jeb Bush was at the top - then Trump - now Cruz has the momentum

amazing how GOP partisan politics changes with the tide, obviously because it is all based on emotionalism and expediency, not on any form of principle
 

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just a few months ago, Jeb Bush was at the top - then Trump - now Cruz has the momentum

amazing how GOP partisan politics changes with the tide, obviously because it is all based on emotionalism and expediency, not on any form of principle
Just a few months ago Hillary was on the top now Bern has all the momentum .

It is amazing how Democratic partisan politics change with the winds . It is all based on emotion and expediency and on no sort of guiding principles .

Fixed it for you .
 

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That is correct. There's not even any need for primary elections, or even for a general election. The state legislature can just appoint the electors.

"Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector."
U.S. Const., Art. II, sec. 1, cl. 2 (emphasis mine).
 

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That is correct. There's not even any need for primary elections, or even for a general election. The state legislature can just appoint the electors.

"Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector."
U.S. Const., Art. II, sec. 1, cl. 2 (emphasis mine).
Originally state assemblies chose US Senators, but I was talking about delegates not electors, but you knew that cuz yer a lawyer.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Originally state assemblies chose US Senators.
Also correct.

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."
U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 3, cl. 1.

It was changed to direct election by the people by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913.
 

Walter

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Also correct.

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."
U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 3, cl. 1.

It was changed to direct election by the people by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913.
That is an amendment that needs to be repealed.
 

Walter

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Good luck with that.
It's what article V is all about, particularly the bolded part.


Article 5 - Amendment

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.​