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To: SatinDoll
Excellent post. You're exactly right. And if we can't get elected representatives that must stand for election every 4 years to do what is right, how do we expect representatives to a ConCon to do what is right.

"the only solution is to unwind the previous violence done to the Constitution and then, if appropriate, pass Amendments that further constrain the rights protected by and powers delegated therein."

Close, but you got that backwards. The only way we could hope to unwind the previous violence done to the constitution is to first legitimize the things that would be most objectionable.

So amendments limiting private ownership of nukes, and amendments giving the Fed's authority for Social Security and Medicare, would need to come first. In fact you would need to identify every Federal program that is outside the constitution and develop a clear plan to either restore it to state authority or pass an amendment allowing the Feds to continue.

Only then, only after reducing the scope of the programs outside of the constitution could you hope to have enough popular support to unwind the violence already done.

11 posted on 09/21/2014 4:24:52 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
The states will not send representatives to the convention.

They will send delegates with statutory commissions. The delegate relationship to state legislatures will be that of attorney to a client, not a schlub off the street.

23 posted on 09/21/2014 4:41:23 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: DannyTN

But how do you plan on doing what you suggest?

Unless you have a big majority clamoring for that it ain’t gonna happen.


36 posted on 09/21/2014 5:06:58 PM PDT by aquila48
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