200 years from now...
Posted on 07/04/2022 3:44:22 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Article V ping!
Democrat delight!
The biggest subterfuge since the Trojan Horse.
An Article V convention can only propose Constitutional Amendments that must be ratified by the states in the usual manner. How is that a “Trojan horse?”
Article V needs an point A to B explanation of process and the proposed amendments.
Too many people can’t grasp this because it’s rarely done.
Why do you think the communists, who do not follow the constitution, will follow the Article V rules?
Seems to me you would just be moving the fighting until after the amendments. The grievances, conflict and anger would still be there.
The Article 5 process won’t work when the government is controlled by self-serving bureaucrats who care nothing for the good of the people. They will merely change the law to better suit themselves.
Art in Idaho may he rest in peace, has passed on, which is exactly what should happen with any Article V fantasy.
I will answer your question when you answer mine.
Legislators and senators refuse to do their jobs.
Rogue judges still sit on benches they should have been removed from long ago.
Alphabet agencies run this country now.
The only way out is through an Article 5 convention.
Bring back strict constitutionalism
Childish of you. But I did not claim it was a trojan horse. So get your answer from that poster.
Here is how to do it:
Toward an Annual Article V State Amendments Convention Part I.
All that is necessary is to meet once, and upon completion of the business at hand, adjourn until a specified date the next year. By never adjourning sine die, and always rescheduling, the states establish a de facto standing and regular amendments convention. America has the means at her fingertips to regularly improve her institutions, to keep them on the straight path which could lead them to perfection.
The problem I see with it as far as I’ve been able to determine over the years this Article V movement has been around is that once convened, there is NOTHING to stop the ensuing proceedings to change the original charter/purpose/goal. There is just not enough experience with it in our history, frankly.
The arguments I’ve gotten back range from “we wouldn’t do that” to “that can’t happen....” and so on. Of COURSE it can happen. There is NOTHING to stop the convention from being infested with leftists and progressives masquerading like they want to strengthen our founding. They’re already doing it with DAs all around the country, with Secretaries of States, with elections clerks and poll workers and WILLING collusion from Democrat judges.
In truth, Article V is a great idea. But it depends on honest and ethical peoples to execute - Just like our current Constitution needs. I’ve seen NONE of this in my lifetime and I’m not about to support a convention. To me you might as well check yourself into a euthanasia clinic and say, “I give up.”
NO!!!!!!
<>Why do you think the communists, who do not follow the constitution . . . <>
That’s a common straw man argument typical of those who react to article titles instead of reading the material.
200 years from now...
Please read the article.
I did read it. It does illustrate the need to do something but it still does not explain how to keep the convention from being hijacked.
Not one Article V proponent can explain in specificity exactly how it cannot be hijacked once convened, period.
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