We still have a peaceful option to restore the Constitution in Exile. We must give the present federal government the Great Reset, the Three Finger Salute, the Control-Alt-Delete by going through the Constitution word by word with reference to the news of the last 100 years (since 1913), and repair the features that have failed or been compromised.
The power to do this has been in our hands since the beginning if we would only use it. That power is for the States to call a Convention to redefine the federal government.
This is a peaceful option. I am dismayed by how many people seen to think that going 5.56 on the whole mess will be productive and in the end better.
If, for example, we remove from government the power to create money out of thin air and to create infinite perpetual debt, we will force it to live within the means of the moment. The present arrangement enables infinite government through infinite money of its own creation. In the process, we are made debt serfs, having given our assets and encumbered all our future earning via the infinite debt burden we allowed in exchange for “benefits”. Shame on us.
We must put this government on a short leash before it succeeds in making us all grovel before it so we can get our health care. But even today, so-called conservatives will tell the voters how much better they would run the socialist public education system. That is a fine model for how Republican candidates will tell the voters how much better they will administer the Affordable Care Act if only the voters would throw out those profligate Democrats! What fools we must suffer as we watch our liberty be sold for EBT cards.
As I said, we have a peaceful option if only we would take it.
“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”
from Article Five of the United States Constitution
Hey, Bucky. Good to see ya.
The most essential step, the step that’s first, is to get our anchor with God solid again. The devil, the literal devil, is behind this, like he’s ultimately behind all sin. God gives us a choice of what spirit to get attached to: His own, or that of the devil and the guises he works in (vain self-focus or futile worldliness). And this starts with you and me. From such a beginning we can exhort and the movement can grow and grow and grow, if people are willing to accept God’s love and put their old sins behind them. God isn’t holding any grudges, but God wants us to chuck out those old sins.
I have an idea for that: an amendment with 5 or so sections: removing the power of monetary-value regulation from congress, defining the Dollar in terms of weight of pure gold, reiterating the previous weight in SI units "to prevent the congress from abusing its ability to set weights and measures", mandating the treasury to give an accounting of gold physically in its possession (which shall be public), denying the congress the power to assume any debt which would cause the total debts of the US to exceed 110% the amount reported by the treasury, and forcing trial (for theft) of any government agent/officer/judge/employee confiscating gold and if guilty convicted mandating (a) immediate firing/loss-of-office, (2) forfeiture of all retirement benefits [including pension], (3) restitution of twice the stolen amount to the bereaved, (4) liability of ALL legal costs.
All true.
When conservatives cannot win simple majority elections, is there any particular reason to believe they could dominate a convention and then have 3/4 of state legislatures or convention ratify the proposed amendments?
good post. we should do this