Posted on 08/31/2018 6:23:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Murphy’s Law
Get rid of the 16th + 17th. Then we can talk.
I tend to agree, the existing Constitutional structure should be left alone.
Oh, yeah, today’s politicians rewriting the Constitution. What could go wrong?
If the Convention is to do any good it must happen while Trump is President or the System will simply declare it null and “unconstitutional” regardless of the actual words in the Constitution. If the Dems were to win the Presidency and Senate in 2020, perhaps if the current president dies in office, then don’t even count on a USSC with three Trump Justices on it to have any effect on the new Democrat government. We are at a crisis point that will be stretched out until one side destroys the other. It will be a long process for the right to finally prevail and for the Republic to continue while the Communists/Moslems only need win the Presidency and one House one time. They are bent on Revolution in the Soviet sense.
I cannot comprehend why some people think that problems which arise solely from the refusal to follow the constitution as it exists can be solved by changing the constitution which has never been followed. Apparently some think that if it is changed again then, by some miraculous intervention, crooked politicians and judges will suddenly agree to abide by it.
Am I missing something or is this idea of a convention of states just a fool’s errand as it seems to me?
There are 16 states that will never approve it. Since it must be approved by both houses in 2/3rds of the states, you need only 16 states with one house of their legislature controlled by dems to cause it to fail.
Can anyone guarantee the conservatives could control the outcome of a constitutional revision?
There’s nothing wrong with the original Constitution other than that we don’t follow it. Just complying with the 1st, 2nd and 10th amendment would solve most problems with government overreach.
Since the current Constitution has been thoroughly shredded and ignored, why am I supposed to think that revising it is going to solve anything?
It’s a coup attempt.
I’m with you, this idea terrifies me.
Largely because at least half of our population has such a poor education on these matters that any convention could well emerge with amendments making income, housing and health care “constitutional rights”.
to quote a former first lady, “Just say no”!
Exactly. I’d be leery of a convention even if there were a 90% conservative majority in this country, and if there were, we wouldn’t need the convention.
THIS !
Any “Convention of the States” stands a high probability of being taken over by Leftists.
No thanks.
I’ll be happy to just get behind Trump appointing Originalists to the Supreme Court.
BAD IDEA.
There is nothing wrong with the Constitution as is. Having a CC opens the door to messing it up, and even having the bad guys influence it to take away more of our freedoms.
Who, BTW, is going to be the Supreme Arbiter of picking Educators? Yes, Education is the ORIGIN of the Marxist takeover of our nation designed in the 1800’s, and until we address that we are dealing with SYMPTOMS.
But as soon as you pick someone who is the Supreme Arbiter over Education, you leave that position as a target for the Left - to get ultimate control.
Just enforce our original Constitution and get rid of the 17th Ammendment....
It would open an enormous can of worms, and we’d never get them back in the can.
No, no, no, NOOOOOOO!
These people are very well-intentioned, and even quite knowledgeable regarding the processes involved...but they are incredibly naive. The Dems and the Deep State (yes, there’s a lot of overlap) will conspire to eliminate the 2nd Amendment. We are, on that issue, making progress - slower and less dramatic than I’d like, but progress nonetheless. While waiting, the public is adding about 1.25 million guns/month to the stock.
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