Posted on 11/19/2009 2:52:04 PM PST by hoguenews
When we were young, we learned about the best and brightest minds in the nation coming together to create the foundation of a new country and fundamentally change the role of government in the lives of the people. Now there is a proposal to have a similar Constitutional Convention in California, but without those great minds, how are we to be sure that we get a document that rewrites the Constitution for the better and not make our state’s problems even worse?
It is important to note that according to recent article in the Ventura County Star by Timm Herdt, all of the candidates running for governor either support or are open to supporting the proposal, except for Steve Poizner. This could be a strategic move or he could really be worried about it resulting in higher taxes, but it gives Poizner the unique opportunity to distinguish himself from every candidate in the field. According to a press release from Repair California, the group organizing the proposal, 70 percent of registered Republicans, 71 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of decline to state voters support the proposal. If those numbers continue to stay that high, Poizner could end up on the wrong side of this issue.
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with all the nut jobs out there, I don’t think a constitutional convention ANYWHERE would make any of us more free. That’s a real scary thought to me.
All you need to do is look at the direction of Californicates current political climate, and you’ll realize the direction a new constitution would go.
A Constitutional Convention in this climate would truly be a nightmare visited upon the American people and the world in fact it would prove to be the total downfall of Freedom loving people everywhere !
Too dangerous.
I submit that the majority of people in this country do not even know what a “delegated powers instrument” is.
Even worse, if you explained to them, and they were actually able to understand it, they would probably think it’s a bad idea. Most people think that government doesn’t “do enough” as it is.
Yeah, for the worse! They took a functioning confederacy and turned it into a national monstrosity.
I don’t want the DC mafia anywhere near the constitution.
NO CONCON!
With the current ILLITERACY rate and the corrupt “leaders” now infesting America, a CONCON WOULD NOT END WELL!!!!
People would do well to read Matthew Bracken’s take on a CONCON in his novels.
This idea of a Constitutional Convention is nothing more than an end run around the current Constitution requiring a super majority to increase taxes. The libs that run this state want it to be a simple majority. If they get their way I’m moving out.
A convention running wild is the least of our worries and the fear thereof just goes to show how cowardly we've become.
It would be a means of repealing the one amendment that put us in this mess in the first place. This being the 16th created in 1913 that gave the federal government powers to tax the income of individuals and businesses to redistribute this wealth to others as the government sees fit and to bring the full weight of the federal government down on anyone who doesn't comply.
Far worse would be a second civil war, collapse or revolution as some have called for.
We are best to just correctly interpret the Constitution we already have.
Interesting reading though. I've never seen it before.
If only that were possible. I'm afraid the ones interpreting the constitution now have been corrupted way beyond their ability to determine right from wrong as someone like yourself, a common citizen, would be able to.
Our only chance barring the ability to put strong conservatives in office is to cut off the funding that keeps the federal leviathan alive.
Oh my God yes, we should fear this! Can you imagine what a mess they would make of it? For once I agree with Poizner.
Most rational people used to and with very good solid reasons: the opening of the door to every nutcase which has the support of equally ignorant national legislators and judges could turn the Constitution into a bad dream.
Used to.
But where's the harm if the present Neo-fascist administration seems to be doing precisely that, destroying the Constitution, without going through the bother of meeting the Constitutional requirements for amending the Constitution?
Yes! That’s the short answer.
We do want to keep the Second Amendment, don’t we? Just think of what the delegates from the blue states would do to that! For goodness sakes, it’s not worth any debate.
For now we have a majority of Red states and maybe even a super majority as would be required to ammend. After 12 million illegals and 2 million felons vote in the next election who knows...
The only change we need to the Constitution is an amendment to limit the 44th president’s term to 12 months.
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