Posted on 03/12/2021 2:41:46 PM PST by Jacquerie
Our governing system doesn't serve its intended purpose, to secure the blessings of liberty.
A casual read of the Constitution reveals our government’s wholesale departure from it. Congress gaffs off or assigns its duties to craft legislation, determine spending, ratify treaties, oversee the executive branch, and regulate the judicial branch. Not being content with rewriting statutes, scotus increasingly elevates itself above God; its Obergefell v. Hodges ruling is only the latest outrage among many. Executive branch agencies reflect Leftist priorities and not congressional statutes. In response, there is a small but growing minority of Americans who believe revolution is our fate.
Yet, there is a peaceful way to stop and reverse our slide into tyranny.
First, we must get out of the mindset that one person, a president, can save us. We have slipped from free government precisely because power is concentrated in the executive and judicial branches. The solution is to reverse this concentration of power, to diffuse power once again across fifty member republics, the states.
With these words, “The 17th Amendment is hereby repealed,” the Framers’ careful, vertical separation of powers would be restored. Instead of free-lancing, at-large senators responsible to nothing more than their reelections, the interests of fifty other governments would once again have a voice in the larger republic.
Would freedom be immediately restored? Of course not; one hundred years of rot cannot be reversed overnight, yet there would certainly be some instant benefits. Think anti-10th Amendment lawyers would have a shot at the federal bench? No way. Senators would no longer walk on eggshells in constant fear of the media, of a national Thought Police always ready to make their electoral life miserable. Senators would be responsible to angry states fed up with open borders, climate baloney and other administrative diktats too numerous to count.
Article V of the Constitution makes provision for the states to initiate this all-important structural change, repeal of the 17th Amendment that our nation so desperately needs. Once two thirds of the states apply, congress is to call for a convention.
When acting in our sovereign capacity in convention, there is no earthly power above We the People. Black chattel slavery was banned by Constitutional amendment. Along with the 17th Amendment, Obamacare and Obergefell can be repealed/overturned via Article V. So can Roe v. Wade.
Rather than roll the dice in armed revolt and at best risk ending up with an Oliver Cromwell rather than a George Washington, We the People can go around the DC Uniparty, avoid violence, and calmly initiate the structural changes on which our freedoms depend.
Press your state assemblyman and senator to do their duty. The tools to save ourselves and our posterity are in our hands. Let’s use them.
Article V now!
Always beware those that would attempt to move you from a faithful, proven fighter like President Trump.
Their motives, for me, become immediately suspect!
Article V ping!
Donald Trump should chair the Convention of States.
Article V — I’m on board. We’ve lost what we had — let’s try to make a Second Republic of the United States.
You’re right.
Sure, but he should also run for President in 2024.
There simply is no better choice!
The Establishment, the Deep State, the Uniparty, the rats stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump and We the People.
Federal elections are pointless. They’ll never let go of power until we outflank them through a COS.
Our nation’s rot is in an inverse relationship to the people’s desire to obey God.
As people drift further into unbelief, they become defenseless before enemies they can’t even identify.
For a Senator from Ohio to feel pressure from a bunch of wingnuts in Seattle is just not right. To put them back under the thumb of the state Governor and thereby the people of that state is the way to go...
I would almost wager that Chucky gets as much funding for his election from other states as he does from NY. there's something wrong with that whole concept..
Absolutely.. One Nation, under God.. And we didn't live up to it.. Just like Israel of old.. And now, the hand writing is on the wall.....
I’m in and still working.
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During the early 20th century debates surrounding the 17th Amendment, I didn’t find any question as to why the Framers designated state legislators the electors to the senate in the first place.
The progs/left of the time focused on making the senate more congruent with the House. They got their wish and we’ve paid for Leftist corruption of the Constitution ever since.
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