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To: Amendment10
why would the Founding States make the Article V amendment ratification process if they had also intended for the President and Senate to create new enumerated powers for the federal government by means of treaties?

That's a good question.

I'm not as knowledgeable about such things as I ought to be. Your quotes were insightful.

The Obama agreement commits the United States to defend Iran's nuclear facilities and provide some scientific research. As long as it's not ratified as a treaty, the next president can terminate the agreement. It's just that critics are calling it a de facto treaty ratified outside of the treaty process. There is no War Powers act committing USA troops, and mutual defense pacts are treaties (and the states would be providing the materiel without their consent).

It's a giant unconstitutional mess, and I cannot believe that an article V Convention of States could be worse than how the federal government is acting now.

-PJ

13 posted on 09/12/2015 3:25:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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"It's a giant unconstitutional mess, and I cannot believe that an article V Convention of States could be worse than how the federal government is acting now."

Note that the Oval office is not the most powerful office in the land as the corrupt media, including Fx News, would evidently like for everybody to believe. This is evidenced by the fact that the Founding States gave Congress the constitutional authority to impeach and remove lawless presidents like Obama from office.

The problem is that the RINO-controlled Congress is just as corrupt as Obama is imo, Congress refusing to remove lawless Obama from office.

I suspect that Congress is having Obama do some of the dirty work that it wants to do so that incumbent lawmakers don’t lose votes.

Note that the states could put a major dent in resolving the problem of lawless legislative and executive branches, imo, if the states repealed the 17th Amendment (17A). But even if 17A gets repealed, parents still need to start making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.

14 posted on 09/12/2015 4:09:28 PM PDT by Amendment10
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