Sunset News: Subject: 28th Amendment

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Subject: 28th Amendment

Subject: 28th Amendment
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> > For too long we have been complacent about the workings of Congress. Many
> citizens have no idea that members of Congress can retire with full pay after
> only one term, that they don't pay into Social Security and that they have
> specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed
> (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment).
> "Ordinary" citizens must live under all those laws. The latest travesty is
> that Congress will exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is
> being considered...in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem quite
> right. We do not have an elite class that is above the law. I truly don't
> care if they are Democrats, Republicans, Independents or whatever. The
> self-serving must stop.
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> > This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.
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> > Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:
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> > "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
> States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and,
> Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives
> that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ".
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