2007-06-28 08:03:06 · 12 answers · asked by PLAYGIRL B 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
You seem to be having trouble "grasping the concept" here
To "amend" something means to change it
2007-06-28 08:06:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No-Supreme Court can't Block Congress. Their Function, under Checks and Balances is to Review and Interpret.
By Definition, and Amendment, once Ratified, is a Part of the Constitution, and thus can't Violate it. Note there are Amendments for Prohibition plus Repeal of Prohibition, and several on Slave status and Representation, and Changes from a State based to a Federal based Government (which is Exactly what the Writers Didn't want!).
The US Constitution was Designed with the Idea that the Writers would Not be Ready for the Future, and Left it to the Future Generations to Change what they had made.
2007-06-28 08:10:54 · answer #2 · answered by wonderland.alyson 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the whole point of the amendment process is that the Founding Fathers were wise enough to admit they may have made a few mistakes.
Otherwise, the Supreme Court should have overturned the 14th amendment because it counts blacks the same as whites, rather than the 3/5 that they had counted before.
2007-06-28 10:48:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but only after a suit is brought.
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But, before that can happen, the amendment must pass muster in the congress, if it passes there, it is sent to each state.
Each state legislature then votes to pass it or not.
When 2/3 of the states vote yes, the amendment passes.
Then laws have to be passed to enforce the amendment.
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Study how prohibition came about, and you'll realize how complicated the process is and yet, a bad amendment can still be passed.
Yet, a women's right to vote took even longer.
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2007-06-28 08:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by MechBob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A proposed amendment is no business of the court. It only rules on whether some action or law is constitutional.
The court also does not rule on proposed laws, which is what I suspect you were asking about. They have to be enacted and then challenged in a lower court before reaching the Supreme Court.
2007-06-28 08:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The purpose of amendments is to add to or change the constitution.
2007-06-28 08:06:24 · answer #6 · answered by Diminati 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No /changing/ the Constitution is one of the reasons it can be Amended.
2007-06-28 08:05:09 · answer #7 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
The ammendment repealing prohibition violated the constitution at the time. But once it passed, it became constituational.
2007-06-28 08:09:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The point to amending the constitution is to change what it is that is unconstitutional.
2007-06-28 08:21:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't prejudge passage or an issue before it gets to them in the judicial realm. That would mess up our system of checks and balances.
2007-06-28 08:47:03 · answer #10 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋