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Posted on 10/06/2011 11:11:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
is a gullible twit !
Time For A Constitutional Convention?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. This is a Trojan Horse. And evidently Mark Meckler is far too naive to be trusted with the family silver.
Naah...now that F&F/GunWalker failed to gut the Second Amendment on behalf of the RinoCracy...now they’d like to talk us out of it.
The existing Constitution is all we needed to become the most successful Nation on this Earth, but the tinkering of the Power hungry, the power hungry Professional Politicians, and the aspirations of brazen political criminals has undermined that success.
We must identify, and vote out those DemoRATS, and RINO’s that are abusing us by using our government, therefore us as their personal resource.
Huh? Can you explain why you think so?
Why? We can’t protect the wonderful one we already have.
If the Framers of the Constitution showed up incognito to this new Constitutional Convention and proposed the same ideas of limits on power and checks and balances, they would be unceremoniously tossed out the door as “dangerous extremists” and probably added to a Big Sis watchlist.
After reading Matthew Bracken's Enemies Foreign and Domestic Trilogy,I would never support a Constitutional Convention. His Book 2 envisions such a scenario. He has been prescient in his writings, and should be required reading for all Freepers.
Worst time ever for a Constitutional convention.
Secession is far more appealing, and that is not a good idea either.
Convention, no. Restoration, yes.
NO!!!
Now is the perfect time. Due to demographics and unhappiness with Obama, conservatism is at it’s high water mark. The GOP won’t save us. We just elected a ton of tea partitiers and they immediately started to vote with the establishment. They continue to fund CBRs
The Judiciary need to have lengths of term defined.
Article 1, Section 8 needs to have more clearly defined restrictive language added to it.
There are a couple of other areas where language needs to be added, deleted or amended so that even the most ‘progressive’ judge cannot fail to understand that the Constitution is intended as a LIMIT on the power of the federal government, not as a template for expanding government power.
There are two methods by which constitutional amendments can be proposed. I sincerely doubt that two-thirds of ANY congress will EVER propose constitutional amendments to limit their own power. That means a constitutional convention demanded by 2/3 of the state legislatures is the only route by which the necessary changes can be proposed. Although I agree it is a long shot, I consider it a FAR more likely event than two-thirds of congress proposing the necessary revisions.
I want a convention, assuming only one condition. If, since I live in Texas, at the end, Texas gets to vote on it. If we reject the outcome, we are free to leave the union.
It would be extremely dangerous.
Just look at the list of demands coming from the hippies on Wall Street and imagine them being enshrined as constitutional rights. It could happen.
I’ll second that emotion. The last thing in the world we need right now is a con con.
I don’t think Tea Parties are Populist. I see them as Constitutionalist and Patriotic. They are our original country. The rest have moved radically Left to the Communist cause.
I agree. Any CC would be hijacked by Marxist radicals, and the new constitution would look like the USSR’s.
It requires no rewording. Only a congress with backbone. The congress may tell the supremes what is out of bounds. That is in the current constitution. It is ignored only by habit and custom, but the congress can put bounds on the supremes.
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