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Coopting Article V Convention and the resultant sabotage
11/13/2015 | vanity

Posted on 11/13/2015 2:57:32 AM PST by Fhios

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1 posted on 11/13/2015 2:57:32 AM PST by Fhios
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To: Fhios

Please read up on Article V more clearly.

If you think Kentucky is unicameral and Nebraska is not, then you need to seriously brush up on your facts, figures, and critical thinking.


2 posted on 11/13/2015 3:02:03 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Fhios

An Article V convention cannot submit amendments for ratification without a yes vote from 34 states present.

So, if NY demanded repeal of the second amendment (to use your example), 33 other states would have to concur (and then 38 state legislatures would have to ratify).

Not possible.


3 posted on 11/13/2015 3:06:11 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Fhios
I want the conventioneers, and their source legislatures, whoever they may be to sign off on that.

You presume unwarranted honor on the part of the signatories, sir/madam.

They're politicians.

4 posted on 11/13/2015 3:11:19 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Crazieman

Yea, I should have looked it up. Just off the bullseye.

Give me the URL for the official Article V page?


5 posted on 11/13/2015 3:17:39 AM PST by Fhios
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To: Jim Noble

Well, my point was I don’t want it even allowed to be a consideration. Scope and Context focused on the objective, otherwise everything outside that scope and context becomes a potential tool of distraction, misdirection or obstruction.

That’s how the leftists operate.


6 posted on 11/13/2015 3:20:45 AM PST by Fhios
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To: Fhios

The Article V convention chairman must be someone we trust, who will not allow shenanigans or coopting attempts.

I propose Mark Levin for chairman.


7 posted on 11/13/2015 3:24:18 AM PST by DNME (This is the government the Framers warned us about.)
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To: Fhios

Are you sure that these protesters are demanding that change, can you get any info please. Thank-you!


8 posted on 11/13/2015 3:26:59 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Crazieman
This is Article V:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

It is my understanding that the provision is included for a Convention of States but has not actually ever been conducted. Amendments have been enacted via the Congressional Route.

I've read where about 400 Calls to Convention (applications) have been made but none had the same topic where the 34 necessary applications agreed. That by itself could be deemed a regulating process I guess, but it doesn't seem to me that the original scope would have to be tightly controlled once the states convene. There is no precedent to go on here.

To my mind a process which has never actually been exercised is an unknown.

9 posted on 11/13/2015 3:27:31 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: DNME

SECOND it in regards to Mark Levin!


10 posted on 11/13/2015 3:28:01 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Fhios
Give me the URL for the official Article V page?

I don't know if this is the official page, but it is the leading one calling for an Article V convention.

Convention of States

11 posted on 11/13/2015 3:29:04 AM PST by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: Crazieman
This is Article V:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

It is my understanding that the provision is included for a Convention of States but has not actually ever been conducted. Amendments have been enacted via the Congressional Route.

I've read where about 400 Calls to Convention (applications) have been made but none had the same topic where the 34 necessary applications agreed. That by itself could be deemed a regulating process I guess, but it doesn't seem to me that the original scope would have to be tightly controlled once the states convene. There is no precedent to go on here.

To my mind a process which has never actually been exercised is an unknown.

12 posted on 11/13/2015 3:31:24 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Jim Noble
Jim, it all depends on how the term "states" is defined. Existing state legislatures? Newly elected state conventions? Appointed state delegations? This is not elaborated on in the Constitution.

At the Constitutional Convention I think it was Franklin who said, "For God's sake, be careful who are those men."

My opposition to this convention is simple: where will you find 34 states where you can control "those men?" Let me take my state of OH. Kasich, DeWine, Taft (to some degree), Portman, Boehner et al absolutely control the state. Whether a vote of the legislature or a committee, they would never permit the repeal of the 17th. They MIGHT oppose a repeal of the 2nd, but would support a pro illegal alien measure or a climate change measure and would NOT keep such silly stuff from being introduced.

What about a convention? Who do you suppose structures HOW the convention is assembled/elected/structured?

No one has yet convinced me that even a few states---let alone 34---would structure the "state" response in a way beneficial to us.

13 posted on 11/13/2015 3:40:25 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Hello? We don’t need a convention because the laws we ALREADY have are not being followed.

Zero has a phone and a pen, remember?


14 posted on 11/13/2015 3:48:24 AM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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Since nobody obeys our Constitution now, by what stroke of magic do you think all these other procedural steps would be followed; or the “new” constitution obeyed?

Article V was intended to be utilized by honest, honorable, pro-constitution people. I doubt whether 50% of those salivating for an Article V convention meet that criteria.

Just keep cool, elect Trump & Cruz, and let 16 years of following the REAL Constitution get us back on the track that worked well for two centuries.


15 posted on 11/13/2015 3:57:49 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Fhios

There is no such thing as the “official” Article V page. There are a host of groups interested in an Article V Convention, COS, Convention of States, and ASL, Assembly of State Legislatures, and I contend this is not the way to restore the Constitution to it’s rightful place. Only the Sovereign States have the power to do so, and unfortunately there is no will, as long as Washington is holding the purse strings.


16 posted on 11/13/2015 4:05:11 AM PST by wita
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To: Fhios
What happens if say NY passes the Article V but includes demands for revisions to say the 2nd amendment, or VA or IL demanding changes to the 1st amendment? If all the states are not on the same page and targeted within scope, then I just as soon as pass on the Article V.

There would not be one encompassing amendment that says "The Constitution is repealed and replaced with this..."

Each change would be proposed as a standalone amendment, and the states must ratify each proposed amendment individually, not as a single "Article V" package.

-PJ

17 posted on 11/13/2015 4:09:03 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: wita

Exactly. This convention talk and sponsored efforts are all based on reading of Article V - one SENTENCE (a long one, but one nonetheless).

There are only requirements to convene, not conduct thereof save the final ‘approval’ by the required number of legislatures.

To my mind, there are several states which I would definitely not want to be in one: California and New York to name a couple. There’s no telling the untold havoc they could create.


18 posted on 11/13/2015 4:14:40 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Fhios

You have a poor understanding of the Article V Convention of States.


19 posted on 11/13/2015 4:20:55 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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Anything that is proposed by one state will go nowhere.

Once the Article V Convention proposes an amendment, the ratification process is identical to the ratification process for amendments proposed by Congress.

In order to believe that we could lose the Second Amendment, you have to believe that the most conservative thirteen states in the U.S. will vote to get rid of the Second Amendment.


20 posted on 11/13/2015 4:22:46 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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