Posted on 07/02/2018 9:44:18 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
On his nationally syndicated radio show last Friday, host Mark Levin said that if a Convention of the States does not happen, children today won’t recognize America for what it is in 50 years.
Speaking about the Convention of the States on his Friday show, Levin stated, “It’s certainly not gonna happen tomorrow, certainly not gonna happen next year, but if it doesn’t happen, I’m telling you, in 50 years, your children will not recognize this country.”
“We had a few calls last night, as I do often, asking, ‘Mark, where do we go with this? Where are we headed? How do we save our republic?’ And I wrote an entire book on this called the “Liberty Amendments.”
“Remember the Albany Congress and the Stamp Act Congress and the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress, how the colonies and then the states would meet, would meet to discuss what was taking place in the country, how to make it better?
“Well, those geniuses who met in Philadelphia after the Revolutionary War to replace the Articles of Confederation with an actual constitution, they put a provision in their constitution under Article V that provides two ways to amend the Constitution: one, through Congress. Two-thirds of both houses, proposing amendments to the states, three-fourths of the states or now 38 states having to ratify. And two days before the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, George Mason stood up – a delegate from Virginia, genius, brilliant – and he said, ‘If Congress shall turn oppressive, the only way to reform what’s taking place is through violence. We must give the people the power to address a tyrannical Congress,’ or in this case a tyrannical federal government. And they set forth the process in the Constitution, and the legitimate constitutional way is through the state legislatures – 34 state legislatures, coming up with virtually identical resolutions when it comes to the issues they want to discuss, calling for a meeting, a convention of the states, where they meet and they discuss what they want to do to get the original Constitution back, which has been rewritten by the politburo that we now call the Supreme Court, which still would require the same ratification process: 38 states, three-fourths of the state legislatures, either by the legislatures or convention.
“So there’s no potential whatsoever for a runaway convention since the states are in charge from beginning to end. This is how you address what’s taking place in this country. It’s certainly not gonna happen tomorrow, certainly not gonna happen next year, but if it doesn’t happen, I’m telling you, in 50 years your children will not recognize this country.”
Thanks. Some posters are pointing out that President Trump will be but a pause in the Left’s march through our institutions . . . unless our governing institutions are fixed through Article V.
To extend the winning, President Trump should back an Article V COS after his reelection in 2020.
Fixed is right. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
Perhaps a quick example: I think should an article V event take place in this period of time, the media would make it a spectacle like no other. The left’s ideas highlighted, like second amendment, immigration reform, Roe V Wade, race hatred, LHTQ and the correct issues ignored like the repeal of the seventeenth amendment.
H in reference to the correct non PC word to describe what should be indescribable.
People who died 50 years ago wouldn’t recognize the country now.
I am sure Cass Sunstein has several ready to go.
Ryan was chosen for a reason
He is leaving the House at the end of his term to cash in on K Street. So he would be the perfect ‘statesman’ figure to preside. The permanent government has the money and hundreds of hacls and ‘think tank whores at their command. Regular people have to work evefy day and don’t have the timr or enerhy to deal with swamp machinations
The institutions are NOT the root of the problem.
Voters are the root of the problem. As are feckless parents who send their children into government schools. Most “conservatives” should look in the mirror if they want to understand the real reason our institutions are messed up. We dropped the ball. Time to pick it up. It starts in our own families.
The socialists won’t even need a convention if their numbers continue to increase. They will simply do what Bill Ayers thought was necessary all along.
I’m fairly sure (90%?) that once the delegates meet, that among them they choose a presiding officer. Remember, precedent would be followed, and there were many conventions prior to 1776 of 2 or more colonies; and that’s how it worked then.
Seems to me that a “Ryan/Ryno” would be out of the question to be involved. Indeed, it would negate the very essence of COS - as Ryno is not a state kind of guy in any way shape or form. He can’t elect himself as chair of a COS.
I believe the “statesman” that would preside would be someone who embodies the spirit of the state side of federalism.
I am opposed to a Constitutional Convention!
What we are learning is that the “Deep State” is very well entrenched in WDC. I have no confidence that the Deep State will not have the upper hand at such a convention, and will subvert it to their purpose.
What we need to do is ensure that the current U.S. Constitution is upheld. If amendments are needed (Congressional/Senatorial term limits and a balanced budget come immediately to mind!), Congress should get off their ass and pass them!
You might wish to read The Federalist #62. Then again, maybe not.
People from 50 years ago wouldn’t recognize the u.s. today. This is what happens.
A better question: do you recognize it from 20 years ago?
The objections in this thread are so frightfully stupid that I think I fear the appalling ignorance of conservatives even more than the leftist drift in the culture.
How depressing!
I don’t recognize it now.
I barely recognize it now.
A CoS to simply repeal the 16th and 17th amendments to the USC would be a huge victory for freedom and the republic.
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