I understand the intention to strengthen constitutional protection of state’s rights and limit federal abuses of power.
However, knowing how untrustworthy and compromised nearly all legislators are, we would be better advised to not open up the Article V Pandora ‘ s box.
I have the strongest hunch that it will ultimately be co-opted by the left, and render opposite of desired results.
Protests and non violent civil disobedience would likely scare politicians into better behavior.
When they feel the heat, they see the light.
Remember Clinton being chased by FREEPERS embarrassing the hell out of him?
Remember the Tea Party protests that gave us the 2010 victories?
We still have a voice. We must be organized, in great numbers, and Loud!
What victories in 2010? What has changed? The Neo-Communists/Dims/so called Liberals are running us headlong off of a cliff, with bankruptcy, national dissolution, and poverty for the masses at the bottom. The plan from the Repuklicans is to AID and ABET the process. We have no more time to wait. Radical ideas must be used and amending the Constitution is the right plan for the job. We must trust ourselves, and ORGANIZE. Keep those out that hate our founding. OVERWHELM the system, this time with ideas and ideals that work and are everlasting.
Well over half of the states opposed both Obamacare and his illegal amnesty in court. I'm aware of two states taking steps to counter the effect the fag marriage Scotus decision. State legislatures are coming to realize they have the power to arrest and reverse the trend.
I suspect most Article V opponents emotionally refuse to believe that America is not exempt from historic cycles of freedom to slavery, of the sort Aristotle described unless we actively work to stop the process. They believe we can find deliverance if we only elect the right person for president. Our history has proved them to be fools.
Article V opponents equate a state amendment convention with our corrupted congress, a congress in which our freedoms and rights are easily traded away today for money, media support, and reelection tomorrow.
They are wrong. Article V opponents are stuck in static analysis.
Men are shaped by the institutions in which they participate. The congressman who would sell our rights today would never think of harming his family. Michele Bachmann was run out of congress for being virtuous in a corrupt institution. Had she joined the sleaze and venality that typifies congress, she could be there today. What I describe is identical to the behavioral difference between men in strip clubs and church.
The states will send serious men/women of character and judgment armed with commissions to promote their state supported amendments. Delegates to an amendment convention will be unconcerned with that which drives congress: money, personal power, and reelection will not be their focus or interest.
We can have every expectation that state delegates will rise to the occasion. They will understand the gravity of their assignment and conduct themselves in a manner precisely opposite that of congress.
“Protests and non violent civil disobedience would likely scare politicians into better behavior.”
check out Charles Murray’s new book “By The People” he outlines how this can be done on a nationwide scale.
.....”knowing how untrustworthy and compromised nearly all legislators are, we would be better advised to not open up the Article V Pandora ‘ s box.....I have the strongest hunch that it will ultimately be co-opted by the left, and render opposite of desired results.”.......
My concern as well.....there is such corruption within the states themselves!