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Mark Levin urges his 8.5 million listeners to call a 'We the People' convention to stop Obama
Washington Examiner ^ | JULY 31, 2013 | PAUL BEDARD

Posted on 07/31/2013 6:56:57 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

Mark Levin, who hosts one of America's top radio talk shows and is considered by supporters to be the people's pundit on the Constitution, is rallying his 8.5 million-strong audience to demand an historic convention of state governments to halt the "oppressive power" of the federal government.

The author of two New York Times bestsellers on the threats to the Constitution, Levin hopes his latest, "The Liberty Amendments," out mid-August, will spark the state lawmakers to tap a rarely used Constitutional provision to institute measures that would brake President Obama's use of executive orders, bar thousand-page laws and collar inventive judges.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 10th; constitution; constitutionalconv; convention; eo; levin; libertyamendments; marklevin; obama; stop
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Mark has been burning the midnight oil. I can't wait to read his book.
1 posted on 07/31/2013 6:56:58 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: sheikdetailfeather

He is brilliant, but his idea scares the crap out of me. Mainly because today’s Low Information voter is so woefully ignorant of the Constitution. I fear such a convention would get hijacked by activists and begin implementing FDR’s Second Bill of Rights (right to a job, right to health care, etc.)


2 posted on 07/31/2013 7:06:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

There has been a Constitutional question out there that no one has been able to really answer for me yet:

When a Constitutional Convention is called, is the matter(s) laid down in the Convention document the only ones that may be discussed?


3 posted on 07/31/2013 7:08:42 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: sheikdetailfeather

For this, I am ready.


4 posted on 07/31/2013 7:14:28 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Your fears are completely unfounded. Read the background and get educated.

People like you will spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) that will impede the best hope America has of righting itself.


5 posted on 07/31/2013 7:16:26 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I will attend this.

No matter when or where it is.

And I can always hope that I meet some progressive dork or dorkess carrying an insulting sign.

We’ll test a little F=MA.


6 posted on 07/31/2013 7:16:46 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He is not calling for a Constitutional Convention where the Constitution is up for re-write. He IS calling for states legislatures to submit for approval a bunch of amendments. There would have to be approved as amendments to the existing Constitution, as is the more typical case of amendments initiated by congress.


7 posted on 07/31/2013 7:17:35 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Your fears are well founded. I can only say that our Constitution is already largely ignored by congress, and grotesquely interpreted by the “black robes” to the point of being meaningless. In fact, the term “constitutionalist” is bandied about on Capital Hill as a pejorative. A hijacked constitutional convention could hardly be worse.
8 posted on 07/31/2013 7:18:26 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Noamie

It is not a constitutional convention (CC). It is a states convention that proposes amendments in accordance with the Constitution to the already existing Constitution. It takes 2/3s of states to propose an amendment. That’s 34 states. Then it takes 3/4s of states to ratify the amendment, that’s 38 states.

There is no risk of states conventions becoming a full blown CC that will run amok.


9 posted on 07/31/2013 7:19:50 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Mark Levin, he is a master of thought and a real Constitionalist. He is tough of the rotten and gives ideas that should wake America up.


10 posted on 07/31/2013 7:21:24 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“but his idea scares the crap out of me:

So what do you suggest we do? Stand idly by and watch our Country turned into a Marxist state? At what point do you say, enough? At what point do you stand and fight for your Country against the Marxist? We have gotten to this point, by being complacent and allowed the values that have made our Country great to be eroded over the years by the Marxists. Our founding fathers stood against much great odds than “Low Information voters”. “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” Thomas Jefferson


11 posted on 07/31/2013 7:34:15 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: Shane; PowderMonkey

Yes stand idly by

That way i can be vindicated in my recent reprimands of peole here calling the French cowards over whatever it was they weren’t doing ‘right’

The French marched on Paris this past spring in protest of gay marriage. Hundreds of thousands of French filled the main avenue ( champs d’eleysee?)

Seriously, Mark Levin.

Who is more informed or wise than he?


12 posted on 07/31/2013 7:50:44 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Buckeye McFrog
He is brilliant, but his idea scares the crap out of me.

Got a better idea, bring it forward. The Congress is never ever going to impeach this bas#$%d, and the Congress will never ever introduce term limits on themselves. The Executive is out of control and acting the DICKtator he is, and Congress refuses to conduct itself in an oversight role. Something has to be done and Mark has identified what the STATES can do to change course for America and bring us back to CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
13 posted on 07/31/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

So how does the process get started, and by whom?


14 posted on 07/31/2013 7:56:09 AM PDT by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You do understand that a Constitutional Convention is not a free-for-all townhall? If it is convened by a state legislature, that legislature determines the delegates, and those delegates determine the Rules of Order, including the agenda.

The fear that such a convention could be “hijacked” is a scare tactic intended to keep people quiet.


15 posted on 07/31/2013 7:56:48 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

There are a few conservative talkers, who actually do more than just talk, thank you Mark Levin...Glenn Beck also, I wish Rush would do something more than talk.

we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour.

These talkers have sustained there lives, created fortunes, and received honour...time for all of them to pledge to each other and there listeners the same as our founding fathers. Becoming active actually doing something can make a huge difference, even if it means sacrificing their lives, fortunes, and honour.

IMO...


16 posted on 07/31/2013 7:57:28 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: stanne
What in the hell are you babbling about?
17 posted on 07/31/2013 7:58:33 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I just ask, though, that people now stop calling the French cowards

We are living off the courage our WW II forefathers exhibited.

The French are now ahead of us in this dept.


18 posted on 07/31/2013 7:58:41 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Hostage
How would the states be represented in this convention? How would a state vote? A vote of the people? A vote of the legislature? A vote by the Governor?

Would the leaders of the two political parties ultimately be the ones deciding the amendments and their passage or failure?

John Boehner is the most powerful politician from my state and John Kasich is my Governor. If those two would have any degree of influence in the process, I think I would just as soon pass.

Our laws are not our problem. Our ignorant, lazy, virtue-less, greedy, jealous, entitled, power hungry, covetous people are our problem.

Levin would be correct if there were a sea of good, virtuous people being oppressed by this tyrannical government. The part he misses is that we have consistently voted for this tyrannical government because it is easier than being responsible for ourselves.

19 posted on 07/31/2013 8:02:37 AM PDT by nitzy (You can avoid reality but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.)
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To: Cheerio

For now, I would be very happy with repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments, and implementation of the Fair Tax.


20 posted on 07/31/2013 8:03:33 AM PDT by Marathoner (Sarah Palin is our Esther, for such a time as this)
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