Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.

Ron Paul wants to end anchor babies. But I guess he's not a major candidate.

The Washington Times reported the following- Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to......

Is Huckabee doing hip-hop hand signs in that picture?

lot easier than trying to pass each amendment by itself. And god help us if we actually have such a convention. Everyone, and I mean *everyone*, will call it open season on the constitution.

It's been open season on the constitution for the last 50-60 years.

the Fair Tax requires a constitutional amendment to eliminate the Sixteenth Amendment;

This is often repeated but it is not technically correct. The 16th amendment does not prohibit a sales tax, the issue is that proponents of the sales tax don't want to let Congress start a sales tax without taking away the income tax. So the 16th amendment doesn't have to be repealed. But perhaps a national sales tax would require its own new amendment for the same reasons that the income tax required the 16th, because it is a tax not apportioned to each state in accordance with its population. (But then there was no amendment for the federal telecom tax, or the luxury excise tax, so I am not sure if those taxes are arguably unconstitutional and/or if a national sales tax couldn't actually be created just by Congress on top of the income tax.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution

A lot easier than trying to pass each amendment by itself. And god help us if we actually have such a convention. Everyone, and I mean *everyone*, will call it open season on the constitution.