Posted on 04/16/2015 3:21:20 PM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON -- You won't hear it too much from official Washington, but America's finances are in big trouble.
When you add up $18 trillion of debt, a dysfunctional Congress and activist judges taking power from the people, you get frustration and an attitude of enough is enough.
Now one group is taking action in the form of a project called Convention of States. Conservative legal scholar Michael Farris heads it up.
"Washington, D.C. will never fix itself and we have to have a solution from a different direction," Farris told CBN News.
That direction is to amend the Constitution by going directly to the states and bypassing Congress.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution says if two-thirds of the states agree, they can call a convention to offer new amendments. Once that happens, then any amendments proposed at the convention must be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
"Our purpose is to impose fiscal restraints on our federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of our federal government and impose term limits on federal officials," Farris said.
A Daunting Task
It won't be easy. The last constitutional convention happened more than 200 years ago in 1787. Since then, all 27 amendments have originated in Congress.
Still, the movement has steam. Georgia, Florida and Alaska have approved such a convention with North Dakota, Arkansas and Arizona close to making a decision. Farris and his team believe 20 states could join the movement this year alone.
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Of course, that was not an Article V convention.
-PJ
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“Enough is Enough,” should be the moniker, tag, title, keyword, . . . for every Article V post.
Prior to 1913, the American republic did as the early Roman republic; it improved itself. Look at the 1-15 Amendments. It has been all downhill from the 16th onward.
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