Posted on 02/04/2015 7:05:43 AM PST by cotton1706
It only took 226 years for Congress to begin to take seriously its duty under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Two weeks ago a new rule for the U.S. House was put into effect providing for a means to count incoming state applications for an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments. An astounding fact being that Congress has never officially tallied these applications before. So, the inquisitive might wonder, why now?
More than a tweet is needed to answer this question as the Article V Convention topic can be difficult to comprehend and sometimes inscrutable when compared with the bumper-sticker mentality driving today's mainstream punditry. But what’s so important about this latest development is that logic can only conclude that if Congress has never officially counted state applications for an Article V Convention until now, this means that for 226 years a critical chunk of the constitution has been effectively embargoed from the American people. It would be as if we never had a State of the Union address because Congress refused to keep a calendar.
“No, the president doesn’t need to address Congress because we don’t know what day it is,” would be the explanation.
Now this might sound silly but it’s not an entirely off-base analogy. To wit, Congress must call a convention once 2/3rds of the states apply, and there have been over 700 applications from 49 states far exceeding the current 2/3rds threshold needed of 34 states. We know this is the number because an organization named Friends of the Article V Convention (FOAVC), of which I am a co-founder, did a forensic study of the congressional record to unearth these documents. You can see FOAVC's repository of Article V applications here.
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Oh. Right. Once an Amendment passes that nullifies all the other Amendments, Progressives will suddenly become all high and mighty that The Constitution be followed.
May God grant the states the wisdom to repeal the 17th Amendment and get themselves back where they belong... the upper house of Congress.
Is there something wrong with the normal method of counting. You know, 1, 2, 3, 4... etc.?
This is Congress we're talking about. They only know that phuzzy math. Common Core stuff...
Okay, I read the entire article, but nowhere does the author explain exactly what the rule establishes with regard to counting the petitions. Is there a limit on how long ago the petition was submitted for it to be counted? Do they count the petitions separately if they address different topics? This article says they have a rule to count them, but tells us nothing about which ones will be counted and which ones won’t, and how that is determined...
The operative term is ‘logging’ or ‘recording’ or ‘tracking’.
It may be a challenge for you to even find out who your state legislators are but do what you need to do and send them the below amendment proposal which you can bet they will like very much because it’s right up their alley, it’s natural to them and has no political repercussions for them.
Here’s what they need to propose as an amendment to the Constitution:
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To redress the balance of powers between the federal government and the States and to restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:
AMENDMENT XXVIII
Section 1.
A Senator in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.
Section 2.
Upon a majority vote in two-thirds of state legislatures, federal statutes and federal court decisions shall be overridden.
Section 3.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years.
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SEND THE ABOVE DRAFT AMENDMENT PROPOSAL TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS, CALL THEM TO CONFIRM THEY RECEIVED IT, THEN GET THEIR FEEDBACK!
Now if Section 1 above is replaced with a repeal of the 17th Amendment, that may be even better but it may be a hard sale. Recalling US Senators gets the job done for state legislatures and it also requires interaction with the voters as they retain the right to vote for their US Senator.
With the above amendment, there would be no Obamacare, no same-sex marriage nonsense and so on. Most of the social issue tyranny would go away.
We will also need an amendment to tell the judges to stop reinterpreting the other clauses and amendments as they see fit. I’m sure they will be happy to comply, once that is spelled out for them.
Be careful what you wish for.
Can you imagine what utter rot would be written into the constitution if we were to have another constitutional convention?
Doesn’t everyone have a right to food? How about clean water? What good is food and water without an affordable place to live? Don’t the kids have a right to a good education? How about college? Who can live these days without a car?
Unfortunately, his “rule” limits the process unconstitutionally. However, I suppose it’s a start.
God bless the finally real Republican House for starting this process and all the conservative bills they have passed this year
Can you imagine what utter rot will be interpreted into the constitution if we don't have a convention?
Mark Levin has proposed a solution to this. I suggest you study up.
I cannot imagine any proposed amendment coming out of the convention that 38 states would vote for.
“Be careful what you wish for.”
A Constitutional convention won’t be happening. That’s a common miss conception. Read Article 5. This is for Amendments only. But, even that could backfire.
“Miss Conception?” Now that is funny.
Do you really think that 3/4ths of the states would approve amendments calling for that? I have faith that the Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they put Article V in the constitution.
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. I do not have much faith in the political caste to stay on topic in a convention.
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