Posted on 11/28/2015 9:39:00 AM PST by Jim W N
If we don’t recover the Constitution and do it quickly, America will become just another lawless, third world banana republic. We are almost there already, IMHO.
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Article V Convention of States is America’s only hope of regaining the Constitution’s promise of a Federal government with limited, enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights’ guarantees of freedom & self governance.
-PJ
More important the even the Convention of States is the American People taking ownership of THEIR Constitution and insisting on STATE SOVEREIGNTY and nullification against unconstitutional federal acts which are by definition acts of tyranny.
The Article V Convention may be necessary but it is not sufficient.
Agree. It’s that personal ownership and citizen pressure on their states to assert sovereignty & nullification that eventually will lead to an Article V convention. Sooner rather than later, I believe.
Let’s start with dismantling the unconstitutional portion of the feds which is probably about 80% or around $3 trillion worth, and reasserting state constitutional sovereignty.
That takes care of the 800 pound gorilla. The key is, again, the American people and the states taking ownership of their freedom and their Constitution. Once this all happens, and to maintain a limited government, the 17A AND 16A should and could be repealed,
We need a POTUS who is a scholar in the U.S. Constitution - TED CRUZ.
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Doesn’t seem so-called conservatives are very interested in taking ownership of their Constitution. The ‘Friday Silliness Thread’ gets about 50x more replies.
-PJ
Agreed.
Freedom is the logical end of what so-called “conservatives” seem to want but many haven’t thought it through. The KEY to our political freedom is the rule of law of the Constitution.
Conservatives need to be taught and persuaded that THIS is the battleground for America. NOW. Not later. Painful now, deadly later.
Again maybe necessary, but not sufficient. If Americans don’t take ownership of THEIR LIVES, LIBERTIES and HAPPINESS by taking ownership of THEIR Constitution, everything else will be a temporary stop on the way to the political gallows.
You can restore the Constitution in one “simple” step: Restore hard money to the USA. Do away with the Federal Reserve and the massive debt it supports and creates.
Money is oxygen of progressives, socialists and statists. Imagine how government and society would change if we returned to a system where money was completely OUT of the control of politicians and their cronies?
Nobody said it would be easy and much damage including the 17A has already been done. But you shoot yourself in the foot when you say nothing can be done until an Article V action is taken.
MUCH can be done in the meantime among the American people individually and in the individual states as outlined.
Article V requires aggregate state cooperation as well as federal cooperation and such proposals continues to be a long, drawn-out process and each step must be done accurately. Hope it is done right. Could be a disaster if done wrong, but I support the effort.
In the meantime, we need action NOW, beginning with the American People educating themselves on THEIR most precious political document, the Constitution, which protects their most precious and fragile political freedom, and states saying “NO!!” to unconstitutional federal acts.
Again, either fixing or doing away with the fed (in favor of a computer that calculates monetary growth based on a set standard) and a “hard” money standard would be a great economic boon, but is is not sufficient.
As long as the feds feel free to run roughshod over our constitutional freedoms, America as a free country remains in great peril.
Art V requires no Federal cooperation what so ever.
Also, states becoming financially INDEPENDENT of the feds will become an increasingly important step to our becoming a free nation once again.
Quite correct. Taking ownership must seem to some as involving unnecessary and avoidable "heavy lifting".
Much of our community has become accustomed to and weakened by the convenience of occasionally voting for and then largely relying on the politicians in D.C.
They are also comforted by the fact our military is the most capable in the world (despite the meddling of politicians with questionable agendas).
Not actively caring about the future safety and freedom of ones family or self would seem to be a major weakness.
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