Posted on 09/03/2018 7:52:45 AM PDT by Optimist
I do understand the point of a Convention of States. There are certainly things that have gone wrong constitutionally in this country.
It appears, however, that the issue is not the constitution, but rather ADHERENCE to the constitution. Although there are items that MIGHT be able to correct that problem (term limits? return to the original election of senators by state legislatures? just for example) the real issue is that the constitution is NOT followed by either those elected to serve and protect it nor those appointed to justify the laws based upon it.
I assume if we are taking this as a long term process, it may make sense, but just the passage of any amendments would likely take a very long time and the resulting course correction even longer.
If a goal is returning power back to the states, can we even trust the state legislative swamp to be better than the federal legislative swamp? I personally do not believe any State Legislature would turn out its own party's Senator (still a good ol' boy system). The swamp may change color but it's still a swamp.
You tell two fantastic reason for it then ask us why?
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The income tax ammendment never even came close to ratification. Every state that took it up offered a different text to ratify.
The president can call attention to this fact and order the IRS to discontinue income based operations.
The Constitution has may systemic problem that socialists/globalists/state-ists are exploiting. They need to be corrected or the the thing disregarded.
Fixed it.
So we go down the crapper because craven twits want to do nothing. Great. Nice Chistmas all.
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