[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Vermont has always had such a bent. Study their early history and it reveals the same old gar-bage.

[Publius]

Article V ping.

[montag813]

The Birchers really get it wrong on the Article V movement, as their infantile “con-con” snark indicates. It is the only way to take our country back.

[smokingfrog]

The remedy so desperately needed to return our country to good government is to enforce the Constitution, not amend it.

The problem is, no one is enforcing it.

[shove_it]

Vermont, the state that elected Bernie Sanders to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives.

[stockpirate]

Because the ultra-left has wanted this convention for as long as I can remember. I do not know what brand of Kool-Aid mark has been drinking, but this convention will see the complete undoing of our liberty.

I lost all respect for Mark when he failed to report on the BC issue in any meaningful manner, in fact he derided those who brought it up as if he was afraid, so he is either a coward or a moron.

[Mr. K]

boy the libtarss hate Citizens United~!

[bk1000]

I like Levin, but it looks to me like a country that could elect Obama a second time could very well screw up a Constitutional Convention. It’s not like we would have an exclusive rewrite. The Left would get so much crap in there it wouldn’t be funny. Entirely too risky. Better to insist the existing constitution be followed and the Federal government be reduced in size and scope.

[dontreadthis]

unless 33 other States apply to Congress to propose the same amendment, there will be not an aggregation of this petition that meets the 2/3 threshold necessary to call a COS for this purpose.

[Hostage]

Vermont is only one of fifty states of which 34 states are needed to pass amendments to be put to the ratification process of which 38 states are required to ratify.

So of course the State of Vermont can propose anything they like but to advance their proposal they will need 33 other state cosigners, and then an even higher bar will be getting 37 other states to ratify Vermont’s proposed amendment to make it part of the Constitution.

The Article V Convention is a means of putting the ruling class on notice that the people have woken up and are not going to take it anymore. Congress itself could propose amendments but who do we trust more? The entrenched ruling class aristocracy or the friends and neighbors in the communities surrounding us where we live?

There will be Vermonts, and there will have to be 13 of them in total to stop the will of the People who use Article V to express their will.