My agenda is to prevent putting our constitution up for grabs, and in the hands of the very people who now cause our sufferings.
JWK
Reaching across the aisle and bipartisanship is Washington Newspeak to subvert the Constitution and screw the American People.
It will be a strictly FEDERAL convention.
And who is it exactly, who is proposing such a thing?
It's one thing to be against something in the abstract; I doubt if you would find a single person on this website, certainly not among the Article V proponents on this site or off, propounding the notion of "putting our Constitution up for grabs". In fact it is to PREVENT such depredations and to restore the Constitution to its proper functioning that such a convention is even under discussion.
I am not certain you fully understand what safeguards are being proposed. This is a law passed in IN dealing with control of the delegates and anything coming out of a state convention.
For instance the law
1) provides that the call by the general assembly for an Article V convention is withdrawn if all delegates and alternate delegates vote or attempt to vote outside the scope of the instructions given by the general assembly.
2) Provides that a delegate or alternate delegate who knowingly or intentionally votes or attempts to vote outside the scope of the instructions commits a Class D felony.
3) Establishes an advisory group to evaluate whether a delegate or an alternate delegate has acted outside the scope of instructions."
What more controls do you believe need to be in place for the states to retake control not of a runaway convention but of this runaway union?
Take a stroll through what used to be our beloved constitution, or even just the first ten amendments. How many are in force? Are any of the remaining not under attack?
Reform cannot emerge from Washington, from those who profit so well from a corrupted system. If restoration of republican freedom can come at all, it will be from the states and nowhere else.
An Article V convention is nothing more than the States exercising their powers under the US Constitution to propose amendments to the existing Constitution!
It still takes several States to approve the amendments for submission to the other States for approval.
the federal government has no power or authority over this convention and in the event 2/3 of the States vote to adopt the amendments, nothing the federal government can do about it!
The States can regulate what proposed amendments may be presented by either voting to approve them or not approving them.
This is not a run away convention or a convention to eliminate the existing Constitution, instead, Article V conventions were placed in the Constitution to provide the necessary power to the States whenever the federal government began operating as a dictator and refused to follow the limitations placed on it in the Constitution.
An Article V convention is called for by the individual States to submit proposed amendments to the existing Constitution to strengthen it from abuse by the federal government.
If you are so afraid of State power and the American people to reign in this out of control government by an Article V convention, then you simply do not understand how the process works. Purchase Mark Levin’s new book “The Liberty Amendments” and get educated before you shoot of your mouth on a public forum!
I’m “attempting” to say, I trust the judgement of Mike Farris and Marc Levine, regarding their interpretation of the Constitution and the constraints available via Article V, because I know their credentials and their character.
Your suggestion that Mike is misleading or uninformed, better demonstrates YOUR lack of understanding, not his.