I appreciate the information! ThanQ for your endeavors!!
My request for a link/more info is because I have recently met a person who is involved with Alabama’s Convention of States and wanted to read more about it. With a little background knowledge, I can at least try to pose semi-intelligent questions when we encounter each other again.
Blessings,
~ lyby
Alabama has signed on to Georgia's application language which was carefully written so as to prevent anybody from taking a Convention of the States to a place the states did not wish it to go. In "rebalancing" federal powers versus state powers and the rights of the people, this convention, should it ever be called, could handle topics such as:
- Giving Congress and the states the right to overturn Supreme Court decisions under certain circumstances;
- Giving the states the right to nullify acts of Congress, something that John Calhoun pushed in his famous Fort Hill Address of 1830;
- Reversing Reynolds v. Sims (One Man/One Vote) which would permit state legislatures to apportion one house according to land, not population;
- Repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments, perhaps even the 14th Amendment, considering that it has been used by liberal federal courts to create constitutional mischief,
Georgia's application language recognizes that the federal government has escaped from the constitutional prison that James Madison created for it and has simply gotten too powerful.
Alabama is on the side of the angels.