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Fear Scotus, not an Article V COS
ArticleVBlog ^ | November 4th 2019 | Rodney Dodsworth

Posted on 11/04/2019 1:36:24 AM PST by Jacquerie

It’s easy to amend the Constitution. It’s been done dozens of times since WWII. Send the right case with the right litigants at the right time to an adequately Leftist-leaning Scotus and voila’, amend the Constitution. Pretty slick, eh? Through their silence, this is the end-run around the Constitution that Article V Opponents defend.

When did We The People, through Article V, ensconce abortion and homosexual marriage as rights? We The People never empowered the early Administrative State and later the Deep State which threaten our republican existence. Since the 1950s we’ve witnessed the detrimental effects of Christianity’s absence from the public square, especially in our schools.

Thank the Scotus for these outrages and much more. Instead of the Article V process, Leftists litigate through select federal courts and eventually get their social justice decisions. In amending the living and breathing Constitution we revert to the practice of our colonial times when similar courts established the limits of the British constitution. “If the Framers had wanted a constitution that evolved by judicial ruling,” said Clarence Thomas, “they could have stuck with the unwritten British constitution that governed the American colonists in just that way for 150 years before the Revolution.”1 Should we wake up one day in a fascist state, rest assured the Scotus facilitated our arrival.

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An Article V COS isn’t a peril to avoid; it is a blessing to embrace. It is the proper and peaceful means to curb a Scotus that recognizes no limits, not Constitutional limits nor those of God. Just as a body in motion tends to stay in motion, so too will Scotus continue its anti-republican ways until it meets an opposing force, and that force is an Article V COS.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: articlev; cos; scotus

1 posted on 11/04/2019 1:36:24 AM PST by Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie

Excellent post!


2 posted on 11/04/2019 2:27:11 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Jacquerie

The framers never meant for the Court of Supreme Whim to have the final say, it was a power it siezed for itself . It’s about time they got slapped down with Article V.


3 posted on 11/04/2019 3:37:35 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong. I)
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To: Nateman

Wheres Andy Jackson when we the common man need him ?


4 posted on 11/04/2019 3:52:51 AM PST by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: Jacquerie
It should be noted that the other two branches like having the Court of Supreme Whim have the final say. It saves them from having to take a stand on controversial issues.

. President Buchanan secretly pushed for the Dred Scott decision thinking it would solve the issue of slavery. Obviously it did not. He also pushed for an COS along with Lincoln, which would have resolved the slavery issue if it could have convened in time. Instead more Americans got killed in the ensuing Republican-Democrat war than any other. We can still avoid making the same mistake this time.

5 posted on 11/04/2019 4:22:31 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong. I)
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To: Jacquerie

America suffer under a very power-hungry Judicial Oligarchy. The only non-violent way to fix that is to put good people on the SCOTUS. People who truly understand the Constitution.


6 posted on 11/04/2019 4:53:03 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Nateman

I have one question that nags me and I just can’t get past. What guarantee is there that the leftists won’t hijack the convention and make thing far worse than they are now?


7 posted on 11/04/2019 5:00:02 AM PST by mistfree (It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
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To: mistfree

Because it take 2/3 rds of the states to ratify anything that comes out of it.


8 posted on 11/04/2019 5:34:34 AM PST by crz
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To: piroque

Right. And they like to vilify Andrew Jackson?

Jackson knew GD well who in the hell were the shysters, and it wasnt the common man.


9 posted on 11/04/2019 5:35:56 AM PST by crz
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To: Nateman

<>It should be noted that the other two branches like having the Court of Supreme Whim have the final say.<>

Quite right. Draft vague laws like Obamacare and let the administrative agencies or Scotus sort things out.

It’s an outrage and antithetical to the Constitution.


10 posted on 11/04/2019 5:58:00 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: crz

Unfortunately, to me that begs the question; will 2/3 of the legislatures always be right leaning? Amendments can take years to ratify. Let’s say an amendment to make abortion a “right” is passed by an article V convention. That goes out for ratification. The leftists pass it in Left States and delay in States that have right leaning legislatures until they can (hopefully, on their part) get a majority and pass it.

I would dearly love a balanced budget amendment but I’m still afraid of a hijacked convention. (off on errands, will check back)


11 posted on 11/04/2019 6:00:15 AM PST by mistfree (It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
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To: Jacquerie
Thank you for the post!

Should we wake up one day in a fascist state, rest assured the Scotus facilitated our arrival.

Bingo!
Instead of, "Its turtles all the way down.", it is "Special interest politics all the way up."

If 2/3d's of the voter desire a totalitarian government, then we get it - perhaps without an obvious struggle.

It all depends on what we teach the voters.

12 posted on 11/04/2019 6:02:56 AM PST by frog in a pot (Arguing the Founders intended the weakest of 2 possible forms of NBC for our leader is a scam.)
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To: crz

3/4ths are need to ratify.


13 posted on 11/04/2019 6:17:00 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

10-4


14 posted on 11/04/2019 6:43:36 AM PST by crz
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To: mistfree
If all you needed was 2/3 of the states simply asking, the required number was reached long ago. So the precedent is 2/3 only for a similar reason. In the case of the call for Convention Of States.com part of the paperwork is a clause that the call is void if it goes out of the stated bounds.

I might add that Congress can do the same thing a COS can but nobody is worried because it's been done many times already.

15 posted on 11/04/2019 4:43:37 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong. I)
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