For later study.
My only objection to an Article V convention of the states is that the feral government simply ignores the constitution now. Why would they not just ignore any new amendments?
Welcome to FR.
Excellent article and thank you for posting it entirely.
Again, welcome.
If we simply repealed 16 and 17, most of our problems would vanish.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.
BUMP for later...
Big changes are always bought by loss of support, and Republicans won't have enough of a margin to secure major changes, even if they wanted to.
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“conservatives” will be the minority in any real convention
What is this Constitution of which you speak? It sounds nice. We should get one.
a/k/a How to kill the Constitution and a Nation.
A bad idea never becomes a good idea by constant repetition.
Here are some of the amendments Mark Levin proposes. These are just ideas of possibilities, this does not happen all at once in some fictional “constitutional convention” that some seem to fear. It is a convention of states that only PROPOSES amendments. There are still several HUGE hurdles to get any of these passed. The only thing different is that the idea of amendments are started up from the STATE level and in the interest of the STATES, rather than depending on our U.S. Congress to propose ideas that would limit their own power. (which will never happen.)
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liberty_Amendments
According to the American Conservative, “Levin’s chief goal in The Liberty Amendments is to propose eleven amendments which will serve to restore the Constitution’s moribund chief components: federalism, republicanism, and limited government.”
Rather than via a Constitutional Convention, Levin instead proposes making the amendments via an Article V convention.[2]
Amendments[edit]
The eleven amendments proposed by Levin:[3][4]
1.Impose Congressional term limits
2.Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment
3.Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review
4.Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation
5.Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)
6.Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to reauthorization and review
7.Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause
8.Limit eminent domain powers
9.Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution
10.Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws
11.Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting
Okay, I’ll play: You’re not going to have an entirely conservative convention. Blue states will send delegates, too. In point of fact, you don’t know what would come out of this thing. Be careful what you wish for.
Thank you for posting your article here, Paul.