Posted on 11/29/2016 3:26:53 AM PST by expat_panama
A fourth branch of government was created by Article V of the Constitution, superior to the other three. It consists of 7,382 voting members, distributed in the 50 States. In order to act, this fourth branch, which I call the Federal Assembly, must organize itself into a two-thirds supermajority of the States in order to make a proposal. Majorities in both houses of a state legislature in 34 states must agree on the subject matter... ...three-fourths supermajority of states is required to adopt it.
It's hard, and it's never been done in the 229 years we've had the Constitution – not until now. By using their Article V power, in 2017, the states, and the people, will, for the very first time, exercise their sovereignty...
...Two of the other three branches of government, the president and the Supreme Court, have no role to play in any of this...
...the States may choose to meet in a preliminary Convention of States. This was last done in 1861, in Washington. State delegations assembled to try to avert the Civil War, but they didn't have enough time, and they failed...
...There will be a Convention of States... ...We're going to get a Balanced Budget Amendment, so what's next? It is obviously Term Limits.
The campaign for congressional term limits is completely bipartisan. Every Bernie Sanders voter would be for it. They all hate Congress. Everybody hates Congress...
...The entire Article V movement is opposed by President-Elect Trump. He was the only Republican candidate in opposition... ...The states, if they so choose, can use it as a weapon against a tyrannical president. As a matter of law, Article V could be used to impeach a president, or any federal official...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If a recall will work, so will the vote at the end of their term.
What we need most is a way to prevent the protection of the bad legislators by leftist media.
This is best done by more media sources to more people. That is happening. Maybe we can facilitate it somehow through legislation that protects freedom of speech instead of concentrating power in leftist “progressive” media.
The author doesn’t distinguish very well between the plenary power of a constitutional convention and an Article V convention.
Our revolution in 1776 and the 1787 constitutional convention were both extra-legal and extra-constitutional. Their source of authority and only limitation was Natural Law.
OTOH, an Article V convention of the states is obviously legal and constitutional. It’s authority is limited to proposing amendments to an existing Constitution.
Big difference.
Could an Article V convention impeach a president? The possibility is very remote, but if it did, it would wander into the realm of a constitutional convention.
IMO, the biggest benefit of a balanced budget or term limits convention is to quell fears, to demonstrate that a convention of the states didn’t “runaway.”
There is a need to force the feral gubmint to be realistic about spending. Baseline budgeting must end. I am praying for a convention of states.
Note to self: The better term is general convention rather than constitutional convention.
“Maybe doing something about $$$ accumulation would change who stayed elected.”
BINGO!!! We have a winner!!
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