Posted on 05/06/2017 1:32:13 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The COS, article V is the only way to turn this giant leviathon called government around.
The short name, "Pima," is believed to have come from the phrase pi 'añi mac or pi mac, meaning "I don't know," which they used repeatedly in their initial meetings with Spanish colonists. The latter referred to them as the Pima.
The Pima Reservation is literally across the street from me, not 100 yards. Today, many, if not most, Pimas are overweight and fat, associated with government sloth. But in the 1850s, as Gary Taubes in “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” shows, the Pimas were lean, mean and very much looking like the Apache in the movies.
What happened? White trading posts along the way began to distribute white flour and sugar, and Pimas stopped hunting and eating meat. They started to grow, and eat, lots of corn. It’s a sad fate for a once strong people. Their economy is coming back some due to heavy farm leasing of their land and several casinos and shopping malls.
Here's the full quote by Jim Robinson, with the part you omitted in bold => "Definitely worth a try and definitely better than the final alternative."
There is NO way to ensure that the Kay-sicks & Yebs won’t control these conventions.
Doing nothing ensures continued growth of a suffocating left wing bureaucracy which will become all-powerful, if it is not already. Say goodbye to your guns and free speech, say hello to section 8 housing in your town and neighborhood.
Say goodbye to your guns. Say hello to nationwide hate speech codes.
Nationwide hate speech and gun control laws came from fedgov, and were approved by a popularly elected Senate, and a SCOTUS seated by the same.
Funny, I thought we just had an election. Wouldn’t call that doing nothing.
And please stop hiding behind Jimrob. Do your own analysis and defense.
A convention will be instant suicide.
See posts #28, #34, #101, #116, #123, all made before the Jim Robinson quote apparently became a thorn in your side.
Here's another Jim Robinson quote, which I agree with =>
We call for the repeal of the 17th amendment, which will reverse the independence of the Senate and reestablish the Senate as a representative of the State governments, as intended by the Founding Fathers.
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Jim isn’t a thorn in my side, but again, you run to him rather than defending your own point of view.
I have also called for the repeal of the 17th amendment.
A constitutional convention would not do that. It would enslave us. But again, please show me the mechanism by which you will control who the attendees are at such a convention, since you obviously can’t control your state legislature enough to have it do what you want, or to control the US Congress to have your representatives do what you want, or your senators, or your judges. But there’s always next time.
How can you even think that? How do you think one Amendment could throw out the first ten and then 38 states would vote to ratify it?
That comes from insanity or ignorance. Doesn't anybody actually read the Constitution anymore? I have a copy of the Constitution right here on my desk for quick reference. You can google it and have it on the monitor in a heartbeat. It's not even rocket science
Wow, you were not just joking. Sad indeed how their diet changed away from health. Nothing causes craving for empty carbs like eating empty carbs.
I have read it.
Most judges and lawmakers have not. At best they view it as a barrier to “progress”.
Do you honestly want California to have input on rewriting the Constitution?
I disagree: there certainly needs to be an amendment regarding the income tax, either abolishing it altogether or prohibiting credits rebates, exemptions, and multiple tax-rates.
Another good amendment would be the full repeal of Amendment 16.
A third good amendment would be restricting incurring debt.
A fourth would be to establish gold [or silver coin] as the only legitimate tender; this would instantly gut the Federal Reserve.
I don’t think the Convention of States involves Congress. The legislators of 2/3 of the states can tender one amendment per convention and then it has to be ratified by 3/4 of the states.
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