With 38 States acting together, one can dismiss the Congress, fire the President, even do away with the Supreme Court.
Th ultimate power in the land, 38 states.
What could the feds do about it? NADA.
Be careful what you wish for.
we need to do this NOW
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This and other writings can be so frustrating. Yet again, Article V is NOT a “constitutional convention”; it is utilizing a Constitutionally-provided second mechanism to create Constitutional amendments. Ratification takes the same path as the first mechanism (Congressional-proposed amendments).
Noted writers have preached endlessly on how the first con-con was in fact a coup d”etat over our first constitution, and a great mistake!
Find these writings elsewhere.
congress will ignore anything that occurs. they ignore all of their constitutional requirements now.
What for? The constitution we have now isn’t followed, what makes you think a new one would be any different?
It only takes 34 to get things started, however, one MUST keep in mind that it will be necessary even at 34 to have some blue states in the mix. How is that going to work? Well, you have an opportunity to watch. Just go to http://themountvernonassembly.org/index.html and read.
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“...Congress must convene a convention to discuss amending the constitution.”
Aaaaaaand, who says they will. What if they will not do it?
Endless debt and infinite money enables endless and infinite government. For a variety of reasons we must remove from government the power to create money out of thin air by which it:
1) puts us all in debt serfdom to pay the interest;
2) diminishes the purchasing power of the money we have saved;
3) buys votes with constituency groups that become dependent upon “benefits” that become a form of “in-kind income” that competes against paying jobs at the lower skill levels;
4)is able to finance going to war even when citizens would not vote to pay additional taxes to support it;
5) expands bureaucracies, the things they regulate and the number of armed people they employ to find and arrest people who violate regulations they didn’t even know existed, or even violating foreign laws. Recall that Gibson Guitar was raided for importing wood that lacked the proper label. Excess bureaucracy sent Abbie Schoenwetter to federal prison for shipping lobster in plastic instead of cardboard. Excess bureaucracy defines the drainage ditch in your back yard as a federally protected “navigable waterway” that you are forbidden to “disturb”.
A government that can create its own money does not have to ask taxpayers for permission to spend more to feed its self-serving spending. When states start calling for a Convention to consider amendments to the Constitution, the first topic must be to restrain federal spending. A government that must live within its means is a government that must focus on the important things rather than imposing evermore intrusive laws and regulations having the weight of law.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.
There are no Washingtons or Madisons or Franklins or Rutledges or Randolphs or Masons or Gerrys around today to send to a constitutional convention. I’m not sure I would like a document created by the Pelosis and Reeds and McConnells and McCains of the world.
I had a prof in college who taught a course on US Government. I remember him talking about a Constitutional Convention and wondering, once called and in session, how it would operate? Could you have a Convention that was limited to what it could act on or one where it could pass on anything it wished? Would the State Legislatures have to vote on all proposed changes or could they cherry pick amendments?