Anyone up for repeal of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments? How about a "compromise" where you can keep any one of them except that awful 2nd one.
Proponents of an Article V Convention are far too confident that it would result in a conservative outcome.
The left, in its attempt to conduct a “long march” through our institutions in order to gain power, has concentrated at the national level. They have ignored much at the state level, because that was not were national power was.
But please notice how many state legislatures are squarely in the hands of the (R) party. This is not the “establishment” (R) party, but it is far more a party that is oriented at the Tea Party. And also please note that while the presidential election dynamic is based in the number of electoral votes a state has, the three separate votes that must be held to pass an amendment to the Constitution via Article V are based on the number of states themselves, not on their size.
This nullifies the weigh that leftists bring to any table based on population. The dynamic is totally different. Conservative Wyoming has as many votes as UberLiberal California or New York. In fact, in an Article V context, the left is at a distinct disadvantage.
If the leaders of the Article V convention movement keep their convention plans very simple and they are able to keep their reasons for each of the few changes packaged in a consistent message they will succeed.
On my part, I would propose that the most simple way of restraining many excesses of the federal government is by strict limits on how much it can spend. Spending is the engine that drives everything else: taxes, borrowing, money-printing, loan guarantees, tax credits, subsidies, near-infinite debt.
Recall that the entire monster of tyranny, control and Louis Lerner corruption is based on a single 30 word amendment to the Constitution.
As an example, a single amendment that might be a mere paragraph that limits federal spending to no more than federal tax revenues will have a YUGE positive benefit to the country. It will force the federal government to reduce the number of bureaucrats by at least 30%. It will force the federal government to limit welfare to those who are truly in need and force any able-bodied people to work. It will force wholesale reductions in the ability of government to add additional regulations.
Ronald Reagan proved that when the message is correctly handled and presented, a surprising majority will approve of it. No pain, no gain!
Exactly.
We will gladly give you a balanced budget amendment and you can give us a revised 2nd amendment that forbids citizens from owning guns and gives the government the right and responsibility to seize all guns (including rifles) from citizenry.
Tit-for-tat.
Then why aren't the Leftists already doing this now via the Article V Congressional amendment proposal process?
-PJ