I disagree, Buffaloguy. As it currently stands, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the Constitution and that is the only situation I can see that would justify a new Constitutional convention. All our Constitution needs is a few relatively minor tweaks.
First, do you really want today’s crop of professional politicians (see my tagline) writing or adapting a new Constitution? They are the folks responsible for circumventing and corrupting the Constitution that we have. The Founders were a group of brilliant, honorable men who tried to consider every possible contingency in the document we have. Unfortunately, they never considered the avarice, immoral and greed for power and wealth that today’s crop of dishonorable politicians (at EVERY level and across all party lines) bear universally.
According to the Federalist Papers, one of the protections inherent in the Constitution that the Founders observed was the balance of power. That balance of power not only included the 3 branches of government, but it also included a balance between the citizens and the central government (2nd Amendment). Another unwritten provision of the Constitution that the Founders discuss in the Federalist Papers is the right of the states to secede from the Union. While secession is a hot button among most Americans (many of whom are STILL fighting the Civil War) it, nonetheless, remains an option.
I would prefer to see the governors of the 26 states that sued over ObamaCare secede from the Union first. This will force a confrontation that will result in one of two things - Obama will back down, or we go to Civil War, the Sequel. We are already seeing some of the first signs of this looming confrontation in the way that Obama has gone after Arizona. Given zero’s ego and his belief that he is the reincarnation of Lincoln (if not Mohammed, the pedophile), I have no doubt that we will end up with the second option. IMO, we are headed that way, anyway, as a means to correct the course of the ship of state.
Congress, long ago figured out how to write laws that were difficult, at best, to overturn. So, IMO, we will have a marginal impact by trying to correct the course of our wandering country by going to the ballot box this fall. After the 2010 elections, the Tea Party candidates we worked so hard to get elected, complained bitterly that they and their efforts were being undermined by the Establishment GOP who, essentially, threatened that any efforts the Tea Party candidates made to change the status quo in Washington, would be met with stiff reistance - not only from the Democrats, but from the eGOP. They have a system that is corrupt and perverted and just changing the players doesn’t fix the system.
So, for those reasons, I think that a new Constitutional convention will not fix the problem and will, instead, take a bad situation and make it worse. If you look at my profile, I have a list of thngs I think are necessary tweaks for our existing Constitution.
Thanks for letting me expound on these issues in this rant.
“Congress, long ago figured out how to write laws that were difficult, at best, to overturn. “
Not praticualry different when you and the other federal power interest handpick and approve the “judge” of the extent of your own athoirty.
You say the Federal Constitution is fine as is, I respectfully point out that your statement belies that assment if only in its practical effect. We need some from of state level nullification & interposition to balance the greed for power of Washington D.C.
“Congress, long ago figured out how to write laws that were difficult, at best, to overturn. “
Not particularly difficult when you and the other federal power interest handpick and approve the “judge” of the extent of your own athoirty.
You say the Federal Constitution is fine as is, I respectfully point out that your statement belies that assment if only in its practical effect. We need some from of state level nullification & interposition to balance the greed for power of Washington D.C.