There was an interesting article in the LA Times (a better newspaper than I previously credited) about something similar in 1861 - an attempt to pass an unamendable constitutional amendment that would legalize slavery. The more things change...
" SAN FRANCISCO — With the country anxious about war and the economy, a Republican president, elected with less than half the popular vote, publicly expresses support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that aims to entrench a conservative social policy preference that seems to have national support.
No, I'm not talking about President Bush's public endorsement of a constitutional amendment on same-sex marriage. Rather, I'm speaking of Abraham Lincoln's mild embrace of the Corwin amendment, a proposal to guarantee that slavery would be immune from congressional abolition — even if a later constitutional amendment attempted to reverse it. "
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Date: 2004-03-15 04:04 pm (UTC)"
SAN FRANCISCO — With the country anxious about war and the economy, a Republican president, elected with less than half the popular vote, publicly expresses support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that aims to entrench a conservative social policy preference that seems to have national support.
No, I'm not talking about President Bush's public endorsement of a constitutional amendment on same-sex marriage. Rather, I'm speaking of Abraham Lincoln's mild embrace of the Corwin amendment, a proposal to guarantee that slavery would be immune from congressional abolition — even if a later constitutional amendment attempted to reverse it.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-amar14mar14,1,1920382.story
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