Posted on 02/20/2009 8:49:17 AM PST by Islander7
Hear, hear! Get it started and we’ll sort it out.
Kent State
Little Rock
<George Washington and his troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania
IOW, they will do as they are told.
Got proof?
No more than twelve holdouts allowed - kinda Biblical...
**The constitution allows the states to call a constitutional convention any time they like.**
The ONLY WAY I’d go for that, would be: The Convention, itself, may have NO CURRENT OR FORMER MEMBER of any LEGISLATIVE BODY, State or Federal, as they have an inherent Conflict of INTEREST.
And then what? Do you think that Obama would simply concede defeat and remove himself from power if a new constitutional convention decided he should not be in office? Do you think the federal employees would simply go along if a new constitutional congress decided their departments were no longer needed?
I would agree that there would need to be going in rules with specific issues worked out in advance among each of the “Red” States Legislatures and Governors... ;-)
I've come to look at it the same way myself, but I don't view it as very likely. I see it only as the most expedient and maybe least painful way, unconstitutional as it is, to set us back on the path of being a constitutional republic, but it'd be risky as hell.
We've run so far afield in our political process that politics simply can't put it back right anymore. Someone has to "de-Baathify" the anti-constitutionalists out of the government. It certainly won't happen when the majority of voters think they can vote themselves a stipend from the treasury and power-mad politicians are only happy to oblige them.
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I believe only a few dozens head Rats AKA traitors. need to be "neutralized" starting with those who disseminate the socialist propaganda ... MSM heads and leftist academics and this will stop ...
In the meantime we as members of the opposition need to start serving on juries in order to nullify the governments attempts to imprison its political enemies. Look for trumped up drug and weapons charges ... a few guilty may get off but that would be a small price to pay
And that is exactly what happened at the first Constitutional Convention. The convention was called to revise the Articles of Confederation. Turned out pretty well, I think, but that’s no guarantee of future success. Especially given the nature of current elected officials.
Has an Illinois legislator proposed a resolution which asks the federal government to obey the 10th Amendment? If not, I’ll ask some legislators to propose it.
I think once control of funding has been regained by the States the Feds will have no choice but to relinquish administration of much back to the States. Except of course for what the constitution specifically grants the Fed authority over (i.e. Defense and etc.).
Technology is a two edged sword in that it has allowed the federal government to become almost an entity unto itself. When the constitution was first established communication was by carrier and transportation by carriage.
These days, a Senator can leave his Mothers wake in his home state to go vote in DC and be back by private jet before he is even missed.
Breaking things up among the States should at least make it more difficult for unscrupulous legislators or presidents to usurp the power of the people. I believe the founders wrote much into the processes for just such hindrances.
Take a good look at the map. The areas with the most financial problems are the blue areas. Go figure!
This is the sort of thread that FreeRepublic was uniquely designed for. Not the nutball threads that claim trilobites are clever forgeries to fool us about the Earths age....”
You mean they’re not?
;-)
we should just clean up the middle blue parts and kick out New England/West Coast/Upper midwest and move on.
“How does Allied States of America sound??”
It sucks. The collective term has been United States from the DOI through the Articles of Confederation into the Constitution and till now. Why let those who would destroy us make us change that?
Free States of America has a much better ring to it. Or just Free America.
A rallying cry and a national title all in one.
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