Posted on 12/15/2008 12:01:52 PM PST by Exmachina
The Ohio state legislature is expected to vote as early as Dec. 10th, to call for a Constitutional Convention (Con Con). If Ohio calls for a Con Con only one more state need do so and Congress will have no choice but to convene a Convention, throwing our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights up for grabs. Ohio's vote today poses a grave threat to the U.S. Constitution. Please immediately call the Ohio lawmakers listed below. …
Thirty-two (32) other states have already called for a Con Con (allegedly to add a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution). 34 states are all that is required, and then Congress MUST convene a Convention.
The U.S. Constitution places no restriction on the purposes for which the states can call for a Convention. 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. We dare slumber no longer; we must take immediate action to preserve this nation! …
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If this is true, we better get an agenda organized, because everything will get a vote.
What, what, what?
Ohio and 22 other states are wanting to call for a Constitutional Convention to vote on a balanced budget amendment, something allowed for in the Constitution, and this site is saying it is going to destroy the US?
Read "A Convention for Proposing Amendments...as Part of This Constitution" to see why the article is BS.
and this is first time I’ve heard of this
and this is first time I’ve heard of this
“If this is true, we better get an agenda organized, because everything will get a vote.”
Even term limits?
A Constitutional Amendment is a targeted devise. One thing only. Anything and everything is fair game in a constitutional convention. Any modifications ... even repealing the constitution.
A constitutional convention in todays political climate would not be a good thing for the US Constitution. Or people like me ... and you.
Remember the words of Nakita Kruschev, “We will take over the United States without firing a shot. ...
The Career Politician has got to go...We need a citizens representative, one who could donate 2 years, do the right thing, then come home.
Anytime the government is in session there is a treat to our Constitution!
The blacks will be pissed when the 14th Amendment abolishing slavery is not in the new document.
When a constitutional convention is convened, there is no restriction as to what can come up for vote. It is not limited to a ‘balance budget amendment’. Anything this, soon to be, socialist govt may want to redo may come before it.
WE ARE DOOMED!!!!
“this site is saying it is going to destroy the US?”
When a constitutional convention is convened, there is no restriction as to what can come up for vote. It is not limited to a ‘balance budget ammendment’. Anything this, soon to be, socialist govt may want to redo may come before it.
WE ARE DOOMED!!!!
We are only ‘doomed’ if we fail to voice our values. To pass the Constitutional amendment, 2/3rds of citizens in 2/3rds of States along with Congress and the President must pass. It is very difficult. If a very liberal, socialist amendment can pass with that level of scrutiny, then we have failed.
Does it really matter, when Obama can flaunt the naturnal “born” citizen eligibility rules and the Supreme Court lets him? The constitution is nothing but an old tired piece of paper. :-(
I can confirm that 4 of the 32 rescinded their request for this convention. There are currently 28 states on the request list.
Stating this, the alarmist will now cite non-existing Constitutional or legislative facts that insist States can not rescind their requests.
Bottom line: Move on. There is nothing to see here.
The 16th amendment was not ratified correctly and we still live under its tirrany today.
When states vote to ratify they cannot make changes or adjustments. The 16th amendment had several states vote on alterations and send that in as their vote.
Then congress ignored that and called it ratified. Check it out.
Therefore with the courts staked so United Nations sympithizers wanting National law would allow a convention to go forward.
Also uncertain are the right of a state to rescind its ratification of a proposed amendment and the right of Congress to extend a deadline for ratification. In Coleman v. Miller the Court strongly indicated that only Congress could decide the rescission issue. Congress never dealt with the question, however, because the child labor amendment had not been ratified by enough states. Earlier decisions on rescission were inconsistent. At Congress's direction, the secretary of state counted the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by three states that had voted to withdraw their approval of the measure. But the secretary of state apparently accepted North Dakota's rescission of its ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment (the presidential disability amendment added to the Constitution in 1967). Both the rescission and extension issues arose in October 1978 when Congress passed a thirty-nine-month extension for approval of the ERA, which needed ratification by three more states to be adopted. Opponents of the amendment challenged the extension, while supporters hoped to nullify the actions of four state legislatures in voting to rescind their previous ratification of it. In 1981 a federal judge in Idaho ruled that Congress had exceeded its power in extending the ratification deadline. He also ruled that states could rescind their approval of the amendment if they acted during the ratification period. Early in 1982 the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from those rulings. After the ratification period expired on June 30, however, the Court dismissed the case as moot, leaving the questions unresolved.
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