I’m dubious about this... what’s the assurance that the provisions of the current Constitution will remain? Liberals would love nothing more than to wipe away the 1st and 2nd Amendments.
How many states must do this? Can’t one or two states put forth changes and have each State vote to ratify until you have the 2/3 majority vote!!!
I’m against it.
The limits that we need and require, are as much to prevent lawyers, judges, district attorneys, and attorneys general ... from the adventures they take at taxpayers’ expense ... as limits are needed at the national level.
The kinds of laws to limit those adventures, we need to see throughout at least 3/4ths of the states.
Indeed, much of what people hope for with a Constitutional Convention, we need to see happening at the state level and locally ... but we’re not there yet.
Lawyers and judges, district attorneys and attorneys general, are lost in extra-constitutional space, where they find unlimited words and definitions in between any two letters of the law. The neither adhere to nor respect fences around government -— and it seems they regard themselves to *be government* and to *be the law makers* despite the principles of original intent and enumeration of powers.
If term limits are going to be passed, let us begin at the state level where the success of it is necessary to be a foundation for national success.
At issue, is the simple fact, that the formerly-federal government, has taken it upon itself to be *the government,* and federalism is dead.
So, it is up to at least 3/4ths of the states to be willing to sacrifice and fight with pen, and with sword if necessary, to re-establish federalism.
The war is not the states versus the union, but instead, the states versus the government-no-longer-federal.
We need at least 3/4ths of the states determined to make federalism work.
A Constitutional Convention cannot correct the sloth of lawyers, judges, district attorneys, and attorneys general who ignore federalism and states’ rights ... in addition to individual rights and individual property rights.
The struggle begins at the local and state level, and only when the corrections we may wish to see happening at the national level, are already working at the state level, can a Constitutional Convention succeed.
Then, if the government-by-judiciary still fails to adhere to the federal re-establishment, it will not be a Constitutional Convention that we need, but a Convention to Seat a New Continental Congress.