I am absolutely opposed to a Constitutional Convention, which will do nothing but eliminate important, valid provisions of the current document, while adding all sorts of rights-cancelling new ones.
What emerges from such a convention will look more like the South African constitution than what we have now.
“I am absolutely opposed to a Constitutional Convention...”
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So is Levin, he says it’s NOT a Constitutional Convention:
“..you’ll hear critics say, “We don’t need a Constitutional Convention! We’ll never get anyone better than the Framers!”
And they’re right! This isn’t a Constitutional Convention.
This is a convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution.”
I have to agree.
Too many trouble makers would like to see what we have destroyed.
His plan does NOT require the conventional “Convention.” That’s the beauty of it.
Not necessarily. There was risk in taking on the British—but now there is greater risk in doing nothing. Check this guy out:
RANDY BARNETT, law professor at Georgetown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Barnett