Correction on what is required to amend the Constitution. While 2/3 of Congress or a Constitutional Convention can PROPOSE an amendment, you then need 3/4 of State Legislatures (or if Congress decides, 3/4 of State Constitutional Conventions) to ratify that amendment. That is a very high bar.
Even in the non-existent chance that an amendment got proposed and could get support from States, it has historically taken many years to line up the State ratification votes. So Trump wouldn't have time to pursue this, even if an amendment was his preferred route to seeking a third term (which, I agree, it won't be).
Thanks (from a Canadian!) for the ongoing great articles on this Substack!
Thank you for answering my question! I thought it was great timing you answered my dropout question the day of the debate requirements, since I wonder if the debates will help thin the initial no chance herd.
Don't worry about Trump trying to stay beyond a possible second term. He was denied a second term in 2020 by the American people and he will NEVER get a second term again.
I still wonder if Biden had made it clear that he was NOT going to negotiate in connection with the debt limit UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, that the majority of the Republicans in the House would have simply backed down and at minimum, extended the limits beyond the 2024 elections
Correction on what is required to amend the Constitution. While 2/3 of Congress or a Constitutional Convention can PROPOSE an amendment, you then need 3/4 of State Legislatures (or if Congress decides, 3/4 of State Constitutional Conventions) to ratify that amendment. That is a very high bar.
Even in the non-existent chance that an amendment got proposed and could get support from States, it has historically taken many years to line up the State ratification votes. So Trump wouldn't have time to pursue this, even if an amendment was his preferred route to seeking a third term (which, I agree, it won't be).
Thanks (from a Canadian!) for the ongoing great articles on this Substack!
Thank you for answering my question! I thought it was great timing you answered my dropout question the day of the debate requirements, since I wonder if the debates will help thin the initial no chance herd.
Don't worry about Trump trying to stay beyond a possible second term. He was denied a second term in 2020 by the American people and he will NEVER get a second term again.
I still wonder if Biden had made it clear that he was NOT going to negotiate in connection with the debt limit UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, that the majority of the Republicans in the House would have simply backed down and at minimum, extended the limits beyond the 2024 elections