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To: Art in Idaho

Bull Flop. We have a great constitution that no one follows.

Jefferson said we should have a revolution every twenty years. Lets have that revolution...bloodless or otherwise to re establish our near perfect document.

Nothing wrong with the US Constitution other than the fact that it is ignored by both parties.
The battle needs to be to stick the politician’s noses into the truth of originalist observance. Not by lawyers. We’ll hang those later


52 posted on 03/26/2017 6:11:00 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero
Bull Flop. We have a great constitution that no one follows.

The founders put Article V in the Constitution to deal with just the situation we have today. Short of a hot revolution, this is the last sane step that can be pursued by patriotic Americans before nullification, secession or civil war.

The Article V Convention of states and the suggested Amendments by Mark Levin seem to be the only bloodless way to right the ship of state, specifically the following eleven amendments:

Impose Congressional term limits

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, returning the election of Senators to state legislatures

Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review

Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation

Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)

Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to periodic reauthorization and review

Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause Limit eminent domain powers

Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution by bypassing Congress

Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws

Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting

In reality, the Beltway is not going to pass the above needed amendments nor honor the constitution until new people and a new mindset is there. Term limits would change the D.C. climate in a hurry. The only bloodless avenue for this is an Article V Convention of States.

53 posted on 03/26/2017 7:13:47 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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