Posted on 03/06/2021 3:28:34 PM PST by Jacquerie
Yes, the ends justify the means. Nothing but the ends can justify the means. Perhaps better put, the ends justify means proportioned to certain ends.
Being born in equality, we are all equally obliged to defend the rights given to us by God. It is for this purpose, the defense of rights, that men form government. Security in our rights is the end. Government is the means. Our Founders drew the following conclusion when government becomes disconnected from, or hostile to, its designed end.
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.”
The Founders found in revolution a just means toward an all-important end. What of proportion? Is the taking of lives, the violent removal of those opposed to, and abusive of, free government justified? Yes. From Natural Law, which is the Law of Reason, when government usurps its powers it is in a State of War with the civil society that created the government in the first place.
Still, while it is the right of society to use force, it doesn’t have to. Perhaps non-violent means can serve the desired end.
That is what Article V provides. While some may feel that a convention of the sovereign people’s delegates is dangerous, it in no way can compare to the uncertain violent outcome of revolution. This principle cannot be better shown than in a comparison between the American and French Revolutions. Where ours culminated in 1788 with a civil, decent and noble Constitution, the French merely exchanged one set of monsters for another.
So let’s say the sovereign people decide to handle the problem peacefully and their delegates subsequently meet in convention. Now what? What exactly should they correct? What can specifically be done to restore free government?
As others have pointed out, it will be pointless to merely reassert Constitutional clauses that have been violated for decades. For instance, if the convention concludes and the states ratify an amendment that repeats to congress that it and it alone may write laws (Article I § 1), then the convention was a worthless exercise. Repetition of existing clauses that support existing means to the desired end (free government) will soon be ignored just like those in the original.
At this point, I suggest the reader take a stroll through the Constitution, or at least through the Bill of Rights. How many clauses, Articles, and Amendments are in force?
In broad terms, only two sorts are actually in effect.
First, the hard or structural aspects of our government remain for all to see. For instance, we still have a congress, executive and judiciary. Elections are held every two years. Every state has two senators.
Second are the rights and powers vociferously defended by narrowly focused interest groups. For instance, the NRA and similar organizations stand ready to visit electoral hell on politicians opposed to the right of self-defense. Until recently, a vast private media pounced on restrictions to free speech. The American Bar association has historically defended the myriad aspects of a citizen’s right to a fair trial.
In contrast, nearly every “soft” structure, right, power or privilege that is not supported and defended at all costs has been practically excised from the Constitution. Enumerated powers are but a memory. The president and judiciary make laws in violation of Article I § 1, etc.
So, let’s get back to the hypothetical state amendments convention of the sovereign people.
What is to be the purpose of this convention, its end?
Within their state commissions, I hope the delegates are instructed toward securing the ends set forth in general terms in the Declaration (that of unalienable rights) and itemized in the preamble of the Constitution, to wit:
Toward those ends, I trust the delegates will be authorized to address structural amendments, meaning those which redefine our governing institutions.
First and foremost must be repeal of the 17th Amendment. History has shown that our government remained fairly well within the limits of enumerated and divided powers prior to 1913. A senate of the states ensured that wild democracy would not get out of hand. Until then, prior to 1913, and thanks to a senate of the states, the government of the United States served its desired ends per the Constitution. As an institution derived from a different source than the House of Representatives, a much smaller senate well-served it designed ends. It checked popular passions of the House of Representatives, and provided wise counsel to the president regarding treaties and appointments to high office.
Today, the senate is an institution whose foundation cannot support its designed ends. Popularly derived bodies have never been known for temperate introspection. It no longer checks the majoritarian desires of the House, and has become something of rubber-stamp to an executive branch that recognizes few limits to its powers.
Here is what an ideal Article V state amendments convention would do:
Reaffirm the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble of the Constitution as the goals, the desired ends of American government.
Determine the shortcomings of institutions which do not support these ends.
Redesign our governing institutions such that they serve to support the ends of government.
The American people are taxed enormously for government at all levels without much thought as to just what government is supposed to do. Isn’t it time to step back and reestablish the basic, uniting principles of the American republic?
No Representation without Taxation!
One can live here, but you don’t get to vote unless you pay in the system.
No Representation without Taxation!
One can live here, but you don’t get to vote unless you pay in the system.
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to?
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Sinnerman
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Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day
We got to run to the rock
Please hide me, I run to the rock
Please hide me, run to the rock
Please hide here
All on that day
But the rock cried out
I can’t hide you, the rock cried out
I can’t hide you, the rock cried out
I ain’t gonna hide you there
All on that day
I said rock
What’s the matter with you rock?
Don’t you see I need you, rock?
Good Lord, Lord
All on that day
So I run to the river
It was bleedin’, I run to the sea
It was bleedin’, I run to the sea
It was bleedin’, all on that day
So I run to the river
It was boilin’, I run to the sea
It was boilin’, I run to the sea
It was boilin’, all on that day
So I run to the Lord
Please hide me, Lord
Don’t you see me prayin’?
Don’t you see me down here prayin’?
But the Lord said
Go to the Devil, the Lord said
Go to the Devil
He said go to the Devil
All on that day
So I ran to the Devil
He was waitin’, I ran to the Devil
He was waitin’, ran to the Devil
He was waitin’, all on that day
I cried, power, power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Well, I run to the river
It was boilin’, I run to the sea
It was boilin’, I run to the sea
It was boilin’, all on that day
So I ran to the Lord
I said Lord, hide me
Please hide me
Please help me, all on that day
He said, hide?
Where were you?
When you oughta have been prayin’
I said Lord, Lord
Hear me prayin’, Lord, Lord
Hear me prayin’, Lord, Lord
Hear me prayin’, all on that day
Sinnerman, you oughta be prayin’
Outghta be prayin’, sinnerman
Oughta be prayin’, all on that day
Up come power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
(Power, Lord)
Hold down (power, Lord)
Go down (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Woah, ho
Ha-ha-ha-ha
Ha-ha-ha-ha, oh Lord
Nu, nu, nu
No-no-no-no, ma-na-na-na-na, don’t you know I need you Lord?
Don’t you know that I need you?
Don’t you know that I need you?
Oh, Lord
Wait
Oh, Lord
Oh, Lord, Lord
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Indeed! They cleverly got into a time machine and snuck it into the Constitution while nobody was looking! So why are the hard core leftists at Common Cause so worried about it?
With respect to the FRAUD. IT HAS TO BD THE STATES
COURTS ARE INTIMIDATED. COMPLETELY
THE ONLY REMEDY IS THE STATES TO DO THEIR OWN WORK
AS IS STATED IN ART 1 clause 2
Leftist mobs CANNOT INTIMDATE STATE LEGILSTORS IN THE SAME manner.
I believe leftist mobs have already intimidated state legislators OR Biden would NOT be in the WH right now!!!
In most states, our legislators attend part-time. They have regular jobs and can see the building totalitarianism as well as anyone. I ask Freepers not to equate our 50 state legislatures with Congress.
Before America goes the way of Orwell's 1984, an Article V COS is our last peaceful means to restore free government.
I would LOVE to believe in our state legislators however after their TOTAL FAILURE to do their jobs in this last election cycle I no longer have faith in the state legislators!! There are only TWO states we can actually count on FL. and TX. other than those two a COS scares the hell out of me!!
No faith in state legislatures.
No faith in Congress, right?
I assume you have no faith in Obiden or federal courts.
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