Wouldn’t it be closer to an Amendment Convention?
An Article Five Convention of the States is NOT a Constitutional Convention! The column is dead wrong right from the very title.
Or not. They’ve been predicting one “soon” for almost as long as viable solar.
I fully support Article V - balanced budget, repeal 17th Amendment, term limits on all federal offices including Judiciary, congressional review of all SCOTUS decisions.
Still need 38 states to ratify any changes.
Misses the mark IMO.
According to the Constitution as WRITTEN and originally UNDERSTOOD and INTENDED, 80% of the $4 trillion federal government is unconstitutional.
ENFORCE the Constitution by abolishing the unconstitutional 80% of the feds, then let’s see if we need a CoS.
A Constitutional Convention is risky, of course; but, (IMHO as just an interested bystander) better than continuing to leave it up to the nine oligarchs comprising the Supreme Court to, in effect, amend the constitution as they see fit.
America has a really fine Constitution. Too bad our Government doesn’t follow it.
Step 1? Kill the Federal Reserve and restore real money. It will take money, that most basic of all commodities, out of the hands of politicians and corrupt insiders. the Fed is the foundation of the progressive-left nanny state.
Scares the crap out of me, because with our sorry current state of Constitutional education it will become a free-for-all for every activist seeking a RIGHT to medical care, college tuition, a house and a job.
DC, and most USAians, don’t even begin to follow limitations of USGovernment within our USConstitution. What makes anybody think that adding amendments would fix anything?
Return to (existing) USConstitution, or perish.
Don’t hold your breath on that one Bucky,
Will this country survive till we got an Article V Convention? The left is hell bent on overthrowing the Trump government and declaring civil war. Antifa and other radical groups have already declared these things as well as the leftist/muslim attacks on Americans.
I believe there is enough evidence and sedition out there for the President to ask the military to open up tribunals and start bringing in people like Soros, who is one of those funding the sedition. This could lead to all kinds of corruption being exposed from the swamp in DC and bringing them to justice.
One positive consequence from all that could be the reigning in of the Fedgov. I hope President Trump is thinking along the same lines.
CGato
Few people realize how far to the left the influential state and local government lobbies are leaning. Give ‘em a couple of constitutional amendments for more control, and we’ll be heading even more quickly toward communism.
The only thing in their way is what little remains of the real private sector.
The left is much in favor of it. It only takes a few minutes to search and find their plans for it.
Please no. We no longer have statesmen of sufficient quality of character for such a convention. Politicians are creatures of the swamp, slithering about to sustain what is good for them, and not the country.
An Article V convention is not a “Constitutional convention.”