Whatever Happened to the Articles of Confederation? Part VI

Article V Blog ^ | January 26th 2017 | Rodney Dodsworth

[Jacquerie]

Subtitle: Passing the Torch.

Remarkably, despite the enormous pressure to disclose the goings on of the federal convention, its delegates managed to keep very close to their oaths of secrecy. In a cost-saving move, several states simply recommissioned their congressional delegates to attend the convention. With so many in Philadelphia, congress, which was in New York, rarely had a quorum to conduct business during the summer of 1787. Edward Carrington of Virginia feared too few of his fellow delegates would return to New York and there wouldn’t be a congress to receive the report of the convention!

The president of congress, Arthur St. Clair, sent a letter to the states in mid-August that was intended to embarrass them into sending delegates in September. It worked. By the end of September, eleven states attended to their duties in congress.

The federal convention wrapped up its business on September 17th 1787. In a letter of transmittal to the confederation congress, George Washington, on behalf of the unanimous order of the convention, made a few requests. They asked congress to forward the draft Constitution to the states, and on behalf of the convention, ask the states to submit the draft Constitution to ratification conventions of the sovereign people’s delegates. Afterwards, it was trusted the states would inform congress of their decisions. The federal convention resolved:

That it is the Opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a Day on which Electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a Day on which the Electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the Time and Place for commencing Proceedings under this Constitution.

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Lew Rockwell wrote an interesting article on breaking up the US. Sounds like he’s advocating a return to the Articles. No one gets along or thinks the same so it’s time may return.

[Wneighbor]

Link?

[Wneighbor]

The most assured way for us to get what we want, as true conservatives, from an Article V Convention is to get personally involved is the process. Personal involvement by people who care is how we got President Trump. We need to support him by staying involved!