Posted on 12/12/2008 11:59:22 AM PST by Richard_ Saunders_2000
A public policy organization has issued an urgent alert stating affirmative votes are needed from only two more states before a Constitutional Convention could be assembled.
Tom DeWeese, who runs the center and its education and grassroots work, told WND the possibilities stunned him when he discovered lawmakers in Ohio are considering a call for a Constitutional Convention. He explained that 32 other states already have taken that vote, and only one more would be needed to require Congress to name convention delegates who then would have more power than Congress.
"If Ohio votes to call a Con Con, for whatever purpose, the United States will be only one state away from total destruction. And it's a safe bet that those who hate this nation, and all She stands for, are waiting to pounce upon this opportunity to re-write our Constitution."
DeWeese then listed some of the states whose legislatures already have issued a call: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
"In truth no restrictive language from any state can legally limit the scope or outcome of a Convention! Once a Convention is called, Congress determines how the delegates to the Convention are chosen. Once chosen, those Convention delegates possess more power than the U.S. Congress itself," the warning said.
American Policy cited a statement from former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger that said, "There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda."
American Policy Center suggested several courses of action for people who are concerned, including the suggestion that Ohio lawmakers be contacted.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I don’t know why the left would bother with a new constitution, besides maybe justifying what they’re doing anyway.
Their very basis of their ideology discounts the value of any rules that were written in the past (that’s ALL of them).
So, any rules written down in this Constitution would only be valuable to them because they want to do them anyway.
When the majority of American people vote in a communist as our president, admit it, the fight is over and done with, all except for logging in the survivors. Come January 20, 2009, the Republic is a has been. Thereisn’t enough people that we consider patriots to win the fight in Congress anymore.
>Well, we’ll just have to get our people in there, won’t we?<
Yeah, OK Tell me who your people are. Bush and McCain types. or Compassionate Socialists or (say with a deep voice) Strong Ex Military Heroes who have a history of stabbing their Party in the back.
Socialism is the word of the day. Get used to it. Our government is easing it’s way into every industry and every bank account there is. A government that hold preferred stock in the major banks will have a chair with the Board of Directors at every meeting. A government that hold preferred stock in the major corporations will have a chair with the Board of Directors at every meeting. Bush has left his stamp on American history and it is in big bright letters, S O C I A L I S M.
0bama’s stamp will be M A R X I S M. They work well together.
And 2/3 of Congress as well
I'll go with those states. We'll get a better interpretation than the idiots on the two Coasts would like to have...
Read "A Convention for Proposing Amendments...as Part of This Constitution" for details.
No. You, perhaps Or I.
What is the convention doing? Wanting to re-write it or add or take away things???
When did thes States issue votes calling for a Convention, and how long is that vote valid? IOW: If Texas issued a call for a convention in 1981, is that vote calling for a convention still valid, even though many/most of those who voted for it are gone?
We would vote for each other but the voters who are there with there hands out won’t vote for us.
It was first proposed by 2/3rds of both houses of Congress in 1972. But, a time limit of 7 years was imposed on ratification. It was subsequently extended another 3 years.
The ERA fell short of ratification by 3 states. Attempts by Congress to propose the amendment again have failed every year since then.
I am in your camp, villagerjoel. Clueless about whether this has any major significance!
Couldn’t Obama play Chicago-style politics with the states and threaten to withhold funds from State projects or bribe members of the state legislatures with perks and largesse to ensure 38 states went along with what he wants?
“It is still up to the people to vote for the change ... unless there’s fraud in the vote then all bets are off ....”
And the idiot electorate in the US would do it. I mean, fr’ heaven’s sake ... think about Nov. 4, 2008!
“It is still up to the people to vote for the change ... unless there’s fraud in the vote then all bets are off ....”
And the idiot electorate in the US would do it. I mean, fr’ heaven’s sake ... think about Nov. 4, 2008!
An earlier poster mentioned that it would have to clear 2/3ds of a state legislature even before it would get to a vote ...will have to do a search on how Prohibition voting was repealed ...
Prohibition was repealed the old-fashioned way: 2/3 of Congress (House and Senate) sending it to the State legislatures where 3/4 of the state legislatures voted for its repeal.
Just returned from some sites ... nowhere does it say the people had any input, ie, voting one way or other ... so it’s up to the state legislators to ratify without the peoples voice ....unless through write-in campaigning ....
Do you think that if Obama gets as far as the convening of a Constitutional Convention and that it is proposed that the 22nd Amendment be repealed that he and his merry men and women are not going to find 38 State legislatures that will go along with the Messiah: bribes, corruption, wheeling-dealing. Blago-gate multiplied by a million times.
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