[DoodleDawg]

They bought the snake-oil of democracy and ratified the 17th Amendment.

Everyone condemns the 17th Amendment but I'll point out again. Without the 17th Amendment David Dewhurst is the current junior senator from Texas, Bob Bennett is still the junior Senator from Utah, and Todd Cochran will be looking forward to his umpteenth term.

We have nothing to lose.

Things can always get worse. And with the kind of people that would be elected to an Article V convention it probably would.

[Jacquerie]

In our Framers’ design, freedom was secured through the division of power. They learned from history that reliance on the virtue alone of elected men was a sure road to tyranny.

First, divide power between the states and the government they created.

Second, divide it up into three parts within the federal government.

That way, no one man or group of men could exercise despotic power. That maxim is as valid now as in 1787, and needed more than ever.

The Framers got it right.