“Instead of talking secession, I think it would be more productive to talk about the individual States calling a Constitutional Convention.”
In a semi-functioning country I’d agree. But the Constitution is not ambiguous...rather it has been TOTALLY IGNORED. The case that threw my overboard was the DC Gun Ban. Somehow, 4 members of the US Supreme Court thought that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms did not exist in the Constitution. Not one Senator or Congressman mentioned impeachment...but those 4 should have been impeached.
Therefore, in my opinion, there is nothing that a Constitutional Convention can do, since the US Constitution can be ignored without penalty. You can re-write and re-write, but they will get into power and simply ignore whatever is their, in order to push through their agenda.
That could happen with an independent Texas...but there’s a good chance that it will not. There is no chance of cleaning up Washington in any case.
It took the villains many years of gradualism to get where they are today, an in the process, they used endless largess, and bankrupted the country in the process. But this is important, because to renounce all the promises they made would ruin America’s credit for decades.
This means no more largesse, and thus their villainy would have to be on a budget.
It’s important to note that the first president to ignore the Constitution was Washington, in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion. And while the Alaska Purchase was being considered, 300% of the entire Congress had been bribed—that is, each congressman and senator had received on average three bribes.
Government is never pretty, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying to keep it from becoming Medusa ugly.
I totally agree with you. That's why I think the red states should seceed. Let them enforce their laws in the blue states. We can start over again with the constitution, eliminating all the damage they have done. Make a few clarifications so that the meanings can no longer be twisted and voila... freedom springs anew.
And we get to saddle them with all their socialist debt. That'll sink 'em pretty quick.