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Kahn
March 10th, 2016, 02:11 PM
What if we selected the president by lottery? Or changed the name of the country to the United States of the World?

Or limited how wealthy a person could be?

How about if we outlawed drunkenness, prohibited divorce, or forbade duelists from holding public office.

What say we?

All these have been suggested amendments to the Constitution — some of the 11,000 proposals made over the years to adjust one of the nation’s founding documents.

Only 27 have been ratified ...

Source (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/weve-tried-to-amend-the-constitution-11000-times-and-not-all-the-proposals-were-good/2016/03/08/58bcb3d8-e555-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html)

Body odah Man
March 10th, 2016, 02:26 PM
woww

Atlantis
March 10th, 2016, 03:09 PM
27 out of 11,000. That means if we were to make one, we would have a 0.024545% chance of getting one.