Constitutional Convention is Within Reach For Conservatives

Dignitas News Service ^ | July 17, 2014 | Paul M Winters

[OneWingedShark]

I've heard of them, and am slightly disappointed that they don't have any drafts of proposed amendments — it would, IMO, help their cause greatly if they had at least one draft for each particular complaint they're addressing. (That is, show they're actively thinking about solutions.)

[zzeeman]

Thank you for posting your article here, Paul.

[zzeeman]

Thank you for the time you have spent drafting these potential amendments, Bookmarking for further study.

[OneWingedShark]

If we simply repealed 16 and 17, most of our problems would vanish. Add in All Laws Shall Apply to All People Equally without exception, and it might spell liberty.

Aye, there's a lot of evil in the de facto class system we have now.

[zzeeman]

Thank you for posting this information about Levin's work in this area. It is a subject that will require an enormous amount of education as it is often mistaken for an open Constitutional Convention which many (including me!!) rightly fear.

It will take time and patience to describe the workings of a Convention of States.

[OneWingedShark]

Thank you for the time you have spent drafting these potential amendments, Bookmarking for further study.

You are quite welcome — I put them in a booklet along with a rather hastily written justification/reason-behind-them over here.
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[Hostage]

There is no such thing as an ‘open Constitutional Convention’.

Such cannot exist under the US Constitution.

[zzeeman]

You are right on that, poor choice of words on my part, I stand corrected.

[zzeeman]

Thank you very much!

[Pontiac]

Valid concern. That said, if we are to invoke Article V, Id rather it come from the right than the left.

I doubt the Left will ever support the call for an Article 5 convention. They have spent a century subverting the present Constitution to its present state of defilement.

They have the Constitution right where they want it and will fight tooth and nail any effort to reign in their subversion of that once noble protector of individual freedom

[dignitasnews]

Heres the thing though, if the numbers are there, there is nothing in the world they (or Congress for that matter) can do about it. And granted, it would be an uphill fight, but it would force an unvarnished national debate on these issues. Because the Amendments would be proposed by the states themselves, where conservative presence is far stronger.