Posted on 05/02/2015 1:35:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie
To Article V proponents and opponents alike.
Ya mean we can’t have an amendment to send leftists Northwest Alaska to commune with the polar bears they are so concerned about? DRAT!
Imagine the delegates that California, New York, Illinois and Colorado for example would send to such a convention. Ordinary political means will no longer work for America. The Negro Community Organizer from Chicago has forever tipped the balance in favor of his coalition of invaders, blacks, Asians, Sodomites, criminals etc.. We are no longer the America we were even twenty years ago
The fear of a runaway convention is due to the runaway nature of its advocates who try to convince us to support it by loading it like a Christmas tree. Its agenda should have no more than 3 articles that fit on 1 sheet of paper.
1) Limit the role of the Judicial branch.
2) Limit the role of the Executive branch.
3) Limit the role of the Legislative branch.
Any attempt to address birthright citizenship or abortion or audit-the-FED will open it a hundred other issues, both issues where we agree and issues where we disagree.
Doesnt matter what amendments come out, each has to be ratified by 38 states. The “Equal Rights for Women” or whatever they called it was passed out of Congress but was never ratified. Same with others. Even if you get a “runaway” convention, the ratification process is a brake on it.
True. But they will be balanced by delegates from Alabama, Texas, South Carolina and Kansas. An Amendments Convention will be representative of America at that time. Will conservative delegates have to contend with progressive delegates? Certainly. But the final product will be representative of all the states.
You can immediately tell the lie of the National Popular Vote scheme by the fact that any state today can award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote, but they won't unless they can guarantee 270 votes first.
No state is willing to stand on principle and give their vote to the winner independently.
That should tell you something about motive.
-PJ
-PJ
As I remember delegates would be in proportion to the populations of their respective states. No thanks. We would end up with a totally socialist government.
<>But the final product will be representative of all the states. <>
Exactly. If we are to once again be self-governing, if we are to be once again a compound republic composed of fifty free republics, then whatever is ratified by three fourths of state conventions or legislatures should be in the constitution.
and will be ignored like the rest of the Constitution
<>As I remember delegates would be in proportion to the populations<>
Did you actually read my short vanity post?
mark
States will be the convention attendees. WY, CA, and the other forty-eight will therefore have an equal number of votes.
The check on any runaway convention is that each of the proposed amendments must be approved by 75% of the state legislatures. The convention is NOT the approval authority.
Two questions:
Who will choose said delegates?
And...
What is the track record of those choosing the delegates at keeping their own oaths to support and defend the Constitution we've already got? In other words, what kind of confidence can We the People have that these delegates will be in any way qualified to tinker with history's greatest document of human self-government?
I don’t even trust Mark Levin. One of the amendments he proposed would enshrine judicial supremacy in the Constitution, which is a signally destructive notion.
Are you stupid?
A proposal for 3/5 of the states to override a Supreme Court decision is judicial supremacy?
No wonder we have such an uphill battle on this Article V process. People like you who can’t read above a fifth grade level.
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