Article V ping.
Posted on 06/12/2017 2:24:09 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The fast-growing, grassroots Convention of States movement has been joined by former senator and head of the Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint, a constitutional conservative who has been one of the leading champions of limited government and individual liberty in America the past two decades.
“The Tea Party needs a new mission,” DeMint told USA TODAY on Monday. “They realize that all the work they did in 2010 has not resulted in all the things they hoped for. Many of them are turning to Article V.”
Article V of the U.S. Constitution, often referred to as a “safety valve” provided by the Founding Fathers to rein in a federal government that has surpassed its constitutional bounds with no other peaceful means to do so, allows for legislatures of two-thirds of states to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution — not to be confused with a constitutional convention to rewrite the entire U.S. Constitution.
DeMint said that his 15 years in Washington in both the House and Senate, as well as his four years at the Heritage Foundation, have convinced him that Washington, D.C. will never fix itself:
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Thus far, 12 states have passed Convention of States resolutions:
Texas
North Dakota
Arizona
Alaska
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Missouri
Indiana
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
USA Today article:
The USA does NOT need a Convention of States.
Want to reign in the Federal Government?
Its very easy - kill the Federal Reserve, and return the USA to currency that is not debt-based, and is backed by something banks and government does not control.
Fed.gov and every statist, leftist and social-engineer that lives off Fed.gov debt, and massive personal debt, will disappear.
Article V ping.
The stupid party can’t pass its own agenda it ran on for eight years, despite finally having both houses of Congress, the Presidency and a majority on the Supreme Court.
No Convention of States until we can out-organize the likes of Schumer and Pelosi, and outstrategize Barky and lizard-woman.
What the US needs is two new parties: Sovereignty Party and Globalist Party.
I’d love to see a convention of states and the Constitution returned to what it was with 3 more rules: 1) term limits, 2) 1/2 of the government shut down and 3) gold backed money.
DeMint is a real Conservative not one of those fake ones.
There is no excuse for opposing a Convention of the States called by a super majority of Conservative legislatures.
Are you one of those Labor Union loving isolationists?
Jim DeMint is one of the greatest patriots this country has ever produced.
How do you explain his organization supporting Ben Sasse as a conservative?
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Ahhh a naysayer...do you know what the COS is, what it’s about or what it’s for?
COS will be the only constitutional act to save this nation
The US already has a Globalist party: Democrats+Republicans=Republicrats. We do need a Sovereignty party however.
Amen!
Exactly!
In general terms yes BUT - my main point is, the United States has a perfectly good Constitution, if it were followed. But power of the States and individuals has been increasingly usurped by Fed.gov, and its cronies - purely by the fact they can derive money out of the creation of debt.
Thanks for the ping.
Let’s do it!
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