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To: Stop the Feds with Article 5
2/3 of the States should call a Constitution Convention and explicitly define the Commerce Clause in an amendment. With 3/4 States ratification, we can reduce the power from DC to an acceptable level.

Agree. Madison stated very clearly the original understanding of the power to regulate commerce among the several states:

...it grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government...

James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 Feb. 1829

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_3_commerces19.html

20 posted on 04/24/2010 9:03:34 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

What all is required to call a Constitutional Convention, and where do you hold it?

Do the Governors manage it? Or Secretaries of State?


23 posted on 04/24/2010 9:23:58 AM PDT by txhurl
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