Go, go, go!! Take it back!!
Runaway! Runaway!!!!! Runaway!!!!! Convention!!!!
OMG start crapping your drawers NOW!!!!!
WAH WAH WAH!!!!
(to all those people who think that this is not IN the existing constitution, or that this is a “CON-CON” when all it is just the STATES PROPOSING amendments, just like CONGRESS can PROPOSE THEM.)
Honor the Constution, use the Consitution to give the power BACK to the States!
Support Article V States Amendment Proposals!
A Constitutional Convention is a wide open affair. Be careful what you wish for. The Articles’ Congress that called the Convention in Philadelphia certainly got more than they expected.
Virginia Weighs Joining Convention of States Effort to Rein In Federal Powers
The Democrats and GOP-e get together and rewrite the constitution? What could possibly go wrong?
What is the agenda they are restricted to?
Has anyone seen a list of amendments they are going to propose? Or are those presented only after the doors are shut?
So, 3 states passed last year, 20 additional states have filed and are sending the apps through their legislature this year. Even IF all 20 of those pass the apps this year, that leaves 11 more that need to get it through. If you do the math, this means we should see an Article V convention sometime around 2020-ish? How will this stop Obola?
We need to get Ohio on this list
Ping
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Three amendments I would like to see:
1) Each state legislature shall be bicameral and composed of an upper house (senate) that shall have one seat for each county within the state. State senators shall be elected from candidates who have physically resided and vote from within that county for a period of no less than two years prior to the election. The house shall consist of an equal number of representatives distributed by districts of equal number of voters.
Reason - this is a long term strategic move to restore the voice of the rural voters in the state legislators and will work to move the states into a more conservative direction.
2) The presidential election shall appoint representatives to the electoral college by awarding the vote for each congressional district to the candidate that wins a simple majority of votes. Should no candidate receive a simple majority, a run off election shall be held within 30 days from the two candidates that received the most votes in the election. The two remaining electoral votes for the state shall be awarded 1 to the candidate that received the most votes in the state and 1 to the candidate that won the most districts. Should there be a tie in either, the current sitting Governor shall award the votes from among the candidates that are tied.
Reason - this is a move to prevent the “popular vote” movement and works with #1 towards a more conservative electoral map. It takes power away from the dense city/urban areas and breaks up the big states from being so much of a swing in the election.
3) The 16th amendment shall be repealed and the house shall determine the amount of money to be raised via taxes. This amount shall then be divided into two equal parts that are then subdivided by the number of Senators and the other by the number of representatives. This per senator and per representative amount shall be used to then calculate each states cost of representation. Each state shall then via an act of it’s legislation, determine how to raise the funds to pay the federal tax bill. The federal tax bill shall be paid first before any other funds are spent on state programs, entitlements or expenses.
Reason - this will work to move the “burden” of the taxes back to the states where they are closer to their voters and it is easier to remove them from office.
There are others but this would be very useful to change the direction of America from tax and spend socialist to much more of a conservative direction.
I want the 14th amendment amended (I'll discuss that later), I want the 16th and 17th amendments repealed.
I want the 9th and 10th amendments enforced.
Balance the budget (except in times of war and disaster).
Lastly, the 2nd amendment should read, The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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I’ve only got three amendments I would like to see added.
1. Any and all laws, rules, regulations, statutes, codes, resolutions, edicts, presidential order, taxes, fees, garnishments, forfeitures, benefit, etc., that apply to any citizen, shall be equally applied to any and all government officials.
2. Any and all laws, rules, regulations, statutes, codes, resolutions, edicts, presidential order, taxes, fees, garnishments, forfeitures, benefit, etc., that apply to any government official, shall be equally applied to any and all citizens.
3. The retirement and medical benefits of any government official, as provided by the government, shall never exceed those of a military Colonel/Captain (0-6) with similar years of service.
we’re getting there
So let me see if I got this right. The idea here is for the states to convene directly to propose Amendments to the Constitutuon that (presumably since they are the ones proposing them) they would then ratify? Is that the general plan here?
It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says. Leftists will “interpret” the words to say whatever they want it to say. You could put it in the Constitution that one plus one is two and the perverse bastards would later say that it says the sum is three. With a straight face. That’s been the lesson of the last 50 years.
I would guess AL and MS would join soon. I hope so.