He deserves it!
Posted on 12/07/2014 9:36:03 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Conservative talkradio host Mark Levin made news Thursday when he addressed the annual conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a "non-partisan membership association of state lawmakers," and it wasn't just because he reiterated his call for an Article V "Convention of the States" to propose new amendments to the Constitution.
Levin's call for an Article V Convention of the States has been well known since the publication of his best-selling book, The Liberty Amendments, more than a year ago.
On Thursday, Levin framed the Article V Convention of the States as the beginning of the process in which state legislators can reassert their constitutional power and become, in effect, the kind of check on the out-of-control federal government the framers expected the three branches of federal government they created in the Constitution would be on each other.
"Take your power back," Levin told the enthusiastic crowd of state legislators from around the country.
Critics who claim an Article V Convention could become a "Runaway Constitutional Convention" miss the point entirely, Levin said. Critics think such a convention would have no impact, as the federal government is ignoring the Constitution already and would have little reason to observe any amendments, subsequently ratified by the states, that emerged from the Convention of the States.
"So if you ask me what makes you think the federal government will follow amendments to the Constitution if it won't follow the Constitution today, then you don't understand this process," Levin told the audience.
"By giving the state legislatures the ultimate say on major federal laws, on major federal regulations, on major Supreme Court decisions, should 3/5 of state legislatures act to override them within a two year period," Levin said, " it doesn't much matter what Washington does or doesn't. It matters what youdo."
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Wish we could clone Levin and redistribute accordingly.
He deserves it!
Go Mark!! Great speech. Praying that they listen and act quickly. And that they actually ‘take the Country back.’
Cloning is just another way to produce twins. You can’t clone the individual spirit. The last thing I want to see is Levin having a “ghey” twin.
Is there a Book Reading Thread on FR?
is this author the same as the senator?
I read Levin’s book Liberty Amendments and have absolutely no concerns about a phony “runaway” process envisioned by Article V opponents. What’s runaway are those in DC, the men in black robes, and bureaucrats unelected and accountable to no one.
Besides being a patriot & brilliant thinker, Levin is absolutely right with the arguments he brings to the table. If We the People and the States don’t do something very soon, there will be nothing left to save.
Of course not.
I used to think exercising this authority would be a huge risk, danger or mistake. These days I think it’s the only chance we have left to save the nation.
I think we should got to convention while Republican control most of the State legislators.
We should propose the amendments mark talks about. and any others looking to turn our states back into THE center of Domestic policies.
When people have the right to vote with their feet they have the power to reinforce and protect the natural rights of the individual for it is an individual not a group that votes with their feet.
It is the man who works hard and merts what he earns that takes himself and his enterprise to lands where he may be free to enjoy the fruits of his own labor.
It i thou competition among states that their Governments are forced to reform and remain sane as Rustbelt/industrial and New England states have learned time and time again over the centuries.
Socialist collectivism only survives where there is a monopoly on policy, where freedom is nowhere found and even there its captive society suffers and dwindles under centrality imposed bad policy and suppression of every kind.
The Oppressive walls of theses Collectives of the 2nd world dammed only are known in the contrast with the free world. This is why they typically not only close themselves off from the rest of the world, but internally rewrite and suppress the history of their own formerly more free people so that their people cannot even see the freer world of the past.
In the long run competition between states and maintaining that separation is the key to holding in check destructive collectivism in all its evil forms.
Unless something is done to return state level checks on the lawless actively of the Federal court, I do believe our amendments will eventuayl fall on deaf ears.
I think at first they will be observed but the Federal employees in black robes will slowly write them out of existence, as they have almost all other checks on their Federal power
especially about that government bureaucrats are accountable to no one as the IRS scandal showed. it amazes me that so many people think that unaccountable government agencies like the irs,epa, Dmv can compete with cutting edge private business like the many tech start ups, google, amazon, walmart , toyota, etc.. government doesn't work because it is unaccountable but democrats keep arguing that they want government to provide healthcare , and a million other things. what about that gov doesn't work don't they understand? that's number one .also government should n’t be doing all these things or attempting to do all of these things . “we want to help people” . fine then do it yourself and start your own charity but don't empower government to take our hard earned money at the point of a gun so they can give it to welfare freeloaders and gov bureaucrats who watch porn 6 hours per day on their PC.
As Levin has said, if they (the elected, the judges and justices, the appointed czars) have no respect for the Supreme Law of the Land, our Constitution, what respect could they possible have for the “lesser laws” and regulations? They have already shown the answer to that: none, as they ignore every law they dislike or change them on whims. That’s not law, that’s the very definition of tyranny and under what we now live.
it’s the $$$
the federales pass various legislation and they get the
states to comply by only providing federal funding if they
do
ie, if the states don’t comply with legislation about (say)
“disparate outcomes” in school suspensions or some such
ridiculousness, then the feds will stop funneling tax monies
from gasoline etc
quite slimey but thats politics
Exactly. And exactly why the Founding Fathers ensured checks and balances. As to what Levin calls the “4th Branch of govt” (the agencies such as EPA, etc.), Congress has illegally given them their own legislative powers...these bureaucrats are illegally and unconstitutionally WRITING and creating laws for citizens to obey.
This state of affairs is no different than the charges made by our Founding Fathers against against King George III: laws were imposed on the colonists without their own say in the matter (i.e., no representation). Now, the People have no say & can’t remove the “bureaucratic lawmakers” and we see the consequences along with the foresight of the Founding Fathers.
I agree completely with Levin that the power of the fed must be taken back to what it was intended to be in the first place-but the chain the fed has on the states was forged gradually with federal/taxpayer money over many decades.
I may be wrong with this-but I think unless the states start saying “no” to those funds, even incrementally, they will continue to be controlled with the threat of those funds being taken away-the Common Core crap is a fine example of that-so is Obamacare-you’d think the sky is falling the minute those funds are threatened. Some states have said “no thanks” to some fed funds, but unless more do so, the fed will still have the whip, no matter what else is done...
You beat me to the punch...
In expanding upon that point and the question of whether or not they would respect the outcome or even call to any convention. We should be laying the groundwork for a cultural and political revolution to overthrown them should they not.
Ignoring the new Amendments coming out of a Constitutional convention would be a clear sign of their tretruy which is why they would be unlikely to do so at first.
Instead their army of litigators and political corruption will seek to rewrite our law into their laws over time in the same mamner and capacity have already done with our constitution over the last 80 years.
The only way to curtail this effort is to install practical checks upon their power with inheirt intrest derived from the power of our States.
The United States Senate uses to serve this capacity indirectly with some limited success back when they were appointed by legislators as originally designed. Short of restoring that limited but oringal check we could simply invent a new one.
I think the suggestion of 3/5th of our State lelgsdators acting on anything with in a period of two years is a bit nutty given the nature of State legislators. A decade may be a more realistic expectation, two decades reasonable.
State legislators like congress are by intentional design of our founders easily deadlocked. They must as a result be given ample time and elections to resolve matters of high importance such as law. Leaving smaller day to day tasks to the excursive.
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