Posted on 10/25/2018 2:25:15 PM PDT by Jacquerie
I though an amendment passed by a ConCon bypassed Congress and went directly to the States for ratification.
Read Post #15 please. It contains the procedure delineated by Article V.
It’s not that I disagree with a convention of states, I don’t if done right, its that Nappy has lost all my respect for him.
If that crackpot supports it, maybe I should change my mind.
Thank you.
An Article 5 convention would open the whole Constitution of the United states to revision or just plain scrapping of every Amendment in it.
There are no clear rules in an Article 5 convention as to what is fair game and what is not.
Look guys, the United States is terribly BROKEN. If you think that we can somehow wish change into being, you are deluding yourself. No Congress-critter is going to risk their comfortable life. None. the only way to force change is at the grassroots level.
Of course this comes at a great risk.
However, it is a far better solution that an out and out civil war II.
The United States today is a terribly oligarchy that treats Americans as serf cash-cows. Restraints must...MUST...M-U-S-T be put on the government. If you cannot see this, you are fooling yourself.
Today, the government is running amok.
There are no limits. There are no boundaries. Today, we are fighting eight separate wars simultaneously. Today, Americans pay more in taxes that food and shelter combined. Today, there are more laws and police presence that it is nearly impossible to do simple things like plant a tomato plant in your front yard, sell lemonade or home school your children.
Yes. It is a risk. But, it is a necessary one.
The time to over turn the 16th amendment is NOW. The time to enforce the 10th Amendment is NOW. The time to take a serious reappraisal of the 17th amendment is NOW.
Anybody feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Then understand that any amendment proposal coming from a Convention of the States needs the ratification of 38 states to make it into the Constitution. The chances of a runaway convention are minimal, but the safety valve is the fact that if a mere 13 states refuse to ratify, the amendment proposal is dead.
Folks supporting the convention of the states really do really not understand the venality of people involved in modern American politics. I simply do not trust that whatever comes out of the other end of it will even have a passing resemblance to being a republican form of government.
Your description of "very poor" pales in comparison to the reality we face.
Is a Convention of States the same as the Constitutional convention that Ross Perot was advocating for back in the 90s?
Is a Convention of States the same as the Constitutional convention that Ross Perot was advocating for back in the 90s?
Yes, I do!
Your continuous pimping for the con con is most worrisome!
See post 15.
I posted a link in #39 to the intro of an eight part series that took on the arch-anti Article V opponent, Publius Huldah.
You are all welcome to read them.
I learned something new and reassuring, i.e.,
Article V only authorizes “a convention for proposing amendments to this Constitution;” therefore, the Constitution of 1787 is locked in place forever.
Thanks.
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