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.
Art V requires no Federal cooperation what so ever.
I don't mean to be argumentative, but I don't see where any action is outlined, other than observations.
we need action NOW, beginning with the American People educating themselves on THEIR most precious political document...
Agreed. Hopefully this also speeds up acceptance of an Article V proposing convention.
and states saying "NO!!" to unconstitutional federal acts.
The problem here is that the federal government simply declares the acts to be constitutional and proceeds as such with a compliant Congress standing idly by. Witness the recent pushback by states over Syrian "refugees," and Obama's response. Look at how Obama continued to issue green cards to illegally "Executive ordered " illegal aliens. Look at the Iran non-treaty treaty. Look at Arizona's own overturned immigration enforcement law.
Obama is declaring whatever he wants to do to be constitutional and daring everyone else to stop him. The states are already saying "no," and Obama is responding with "yeah, whatever."
-PJ