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For more information on a Constitutional Convention initiated by the states, see Compact for America and Convention of States
1 posted on 04/11/2014 1:32:12 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
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What could possibly go wrong? I mean, anything’s better than what we have now, right?


2 posted on 04/11/2014 1:34:35 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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I see a mistake. The founding fathers should have left Congress out of the equation entirely. As it is, Congress has to call for the convention and they could literally sit on their laurels forever and not do it.


3 posted on 04/11/2014 1:38:13 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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This is a Convention of the States. It will have no effect on the Articles or the Bill of Rights which were ratified as a package.

The purpose will be to propose new Amendments and not to rewrite the entire Constitution.


7 posted on 04/11/2014 1:42:39 PM PDT by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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If the Balanced Budget Amendment requires lowering expenditures and prohibits raising taxes, then it's okay with me.

8 posted on 04/11/2014 1:44:03 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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This sword has two edges. Be careful what you wish for.


11 posted on 04/11/2014 1:46:40 PM PDT by lurk
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I’d be happy if we had an amendment that requires that anyone running for the office of president must be a natural born United States citizen. /sarc

No sense in writing new ones until the old ones are enforced.


15 posted on 04/11/2014 1:50:10 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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The seventeenth amendment making senators directly elected by the people hamstrung states' rights and sent all the power to Washington.

An article 5 convention is a way for the states to get back some of that power, and the feral government has no say.

Only the state legislatures have a say in an article 5 convention.

Harry Reid and Nasty Pelosi need not apply.

18 posted on 04/11/2014 1:59:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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The constituents who would benefit from a constitutional convention--they and the big spending, big taxing state legislators:

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
“2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%

They discuss politics with Republicans while giving our money to Democrats. The real answer is to live frugally and become more self-sufficient. Stop the big personal spending.


21 posted on 04/11/2014 2:03:03 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 5thGenTexan; AllAmericanGirl44; Amagi; Art in Idaho; Arthur Wildfire! March; Arthur McGowan; ...

Article V ping.


22 posted on 04/11/2014 2:04:57 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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Imagine the tsunami of pork (federal spending) that would flow to the states afterwards (not to mention the vacuuming of “impact fees” and property taxes from the population). Regulations would be enormously expanded. Members of Congress suck pork out to the states. State legislators hike fees and pass more regulations.

There’s no good side in contemporary politics. They’re all radical socialists. The economic collapse will proceed without a huge expansion of the manufacturing base, which won’t happen without repeals of thousands of regulations at every level of government (especially local).


24 posted on 04/11/2014 2:07:41 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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Those who control contemporary politics are fighting--each group against others--for larger shares of the pile of debt/revenues, with the debt rising and revenues shrinking. They dominate both political parties in local, state and federal politics.

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."


28 posted on 04/11/2014 2:15:08 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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Why such IGNORANT headlines at Fox ?

32 posted on 04/11/2014 2:19:14 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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... through a little-known (emphasis added) provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes.

The article is right. Although it takes less than a minute to read Article V, the relatively few provisions in Article V are little-known -- but they shouldn't be. Every high school student should be required to know the simple options for amending the Constitution in Article V before being allowed to graduate.

35 posted on 04/11/2014 2:24:30 PM PDT by Amendment10
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The only thing that ever should be discussed in this manner is the dissolution of the union and which states are going to form how many separate and independent North American nations./p>
57 posted on 04/11/2014 3:49:43 PM PDT by nomad
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This is really a “raise-the-bridge/lower-the-river” issue, IMHO. The lower-the-river endeavor is this constitutional convention. It could change the whole landscape. The raise-the-bridge angle would be to 1) clarify the 14th Amendment to make it say exactly what it was intended to say 140 years ago, and specify what it WASN’T intended to say; and 2) eliminate the commerce clause entirely as being an obsolete vestige whose necessity and times no longer exist (and, at the same time, poof! goes the Commerce Department).
I believe that with those two refinements, the Constitution could still be our Lex Rex, and the libs would be hard pressed to govern, either legislatively or administratively; because there is not a single substantive action taken by liberals within the past 60 years that wasn’t entirely predicated upon the 14th Amendment and Commerce Clause, applied wrongfully, by the Supreme Court.
So I say let’s raise the bridge.


62 posted on 04/11/2014 5:09:25 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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Any Constitutional Convention, today or in the near future, will be taken over by socialists one way or another. All conservative input will be muted and go unreported by the MSN.

The result will create a country that reflects every socialist's wet dream.

Right now, we are seeing a foretaste, under the current administration, of what will be created by such a Constitutional Convention. Electing a strictly conservative future government will not change the outcome.

As it stands, socialists have a plan, a goal, and lots of money, as well as the MSN ready to report most favorably on them - while failing to mention those things which could be seen as negative. Low information voters will lap up every sound bite.

As it stands, the Conservatives have some money, moral rectitude, FOX news, and a moldy piece of paper. Low information voters will not have a clue what conservatives are talking about, if they even hear anything at all.

No Amendments will be strengthened, only weakened or eliminated. New Amendments will enshrine socialist values.

Holding a Constitutional Convention in such an environment is the worst idea possible and will end very badly for this country.

We live in interesting times ... be careful what you wish for ...

74 posted on 04/12/2014 4:21:42 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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