Posted on 02/21/2021 1:09:03 PM PST by RandFan
Mark Meckler, the new interim CEO of Parler, currently supports a Convention of States that could give George Soros and other interests the power to rewrite the Constitution. Meckler, who was appointed as interim CEO of Parler following the removal of founder John Matze, currently runs the Convention of States Project, a supposed “grassroots” organization pushing for a convention under Article V of the Constitution.
The project describes itself as a “national effort to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution, restricted to proposing amendments that will impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials and members of Congress,” which initially sounds appealing.
However, a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities argued that such a restriction on an Article V convention would be impossible, with states unable to control what a convention could and could not discuss, and nobody else having clear constitutional control over the convention.
Former Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote in 1988 that “there is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.”
Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia echoed this sentiment in 2014. “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention,” said Scalia. “Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?”
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I can certainly compare the conservative nature of the content posted and the posters commenting, all in order to respond to the “echo chamber” description.
It would have to be a majority of states to ratify the amendments. No way are there that many communist blue states. They could propose as many Marxist amendments as they wanted, Red states wouldn’t agree.
I don't know enough about Rebekah Mercer, but I do know she's a trust fund baby, and as a class they tend to be flakes. Unable to judge people except by cocktail party conversation. Best of intentions, but susceptible to all kinds of half-baked schemes. The architecture of Parler was from the beginning fragile, and AFAIK it still is.
And no, I don't trust the Article V meme any farther than I can throw a Buick. One handed.
If I show up to vote in November, what prevents AntiFa from just killing me?
So honestly, I won’t ever again and I’ll just the plan. As we all know, doing nothing is the best strategy to win.
The people who wrote our constitution were learned men of letters and men of honor.
If there was a constitutional convention today it would taken over by the same morons who voted for Biden.
We would have a Facebook, Twitter convention.
No thanks. I’ll stick with the current constitution.
Not sure I do either.
WTF???????
AMEN!!!! WALK AWAY DAN!!!
Let’s see what Trump does.
This is just someone’s silly opinions, lies, and distortion of the facts.
Why is that?
I am in favor even though I believe it would be stopped Congress, the Court, and ultimately, by the FBI or other armed wing of the Deep State. We need an overt act like that to shake most conservatives awake.
Hit piece.
I agree, Parler was bad from the start.
The states that ratify or reject by legislature are more apt to render an honest judgment than those states that put it to popular vote because the Peoples Democrat Party is in the process right now of taking total control of the voting mechanisms from top to bottom and enacting vote fraud into Law.
“An Article V Convention should only happen if Conservatives can control it.”
I agree but fat chance of that happening.
Right now liberals control all three branches of government. Conservatives can’t even control the Republican Party.
If the Government can ignore the Constitution as written, why risk re-writing it?
There aren't enough states to ratify conservative amendments any more than there are states to ratify liberal ones. Article V conventions are a joke.
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