An enforced balance budget, with a mandatory paydown of the debt, would be a great amendment.
Why is it that so many conservatives believe that if a Constitutional Convention were held that WE would get our way on things. It could go the other way just as easily.
As of April 2017, there were seven states with Republican control of their legislatures that had not passed a call for a constitutional convention: Wisconsin, Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Better idea: elect representatives who understand that most Federal employees work at agencies and departments which have are extra-Constitutional, if not blatantly un Constitutional.
And simply put those employees out of work.
I don’t care what Levin says, this scares me.
Why not just come up with an amendment one at a time like any other?
Amendment stating what cruel and unusual punishment is....and what it isn't.
Amendment stating what an "outlaw" is, the procedure for declaring outlaws, and how they will be hunted and killed without further due process; with application to waging war.
Remove death penalty appeals to SCOTUS unless there is a clear constitutional issue and remand it to the states (or the respective federal court for federal cases).
Right, and that’s it’s current appeal.
Everyone can fantasize about how the convention would save us by adopting their pet amendment(s).
The real work is building broad and deep support for the specific changes that will be proposed - and those that won’t - but that’s really hard.
All this focus on process instead of substance is fun but puts the cart squarely in front of the horse.
Jacquerie wrote: “A COS can recommend structural changes, like repeal of the 17th Amendment, to keep and expandPDJT’s reforms.”
Takes 3/4 ths of the states to ratify an amendment. Do you honestly believe that 38 states would vote for any of these amendments favored by the right? All of the blue states wouldn’t and they’d try to propose amendments cancelling things like the 2d amendment. Or, they would take up Obama’s stance that the constitution ought to guarantee things like universal health care, a living wage, open borders.
For a Convention of the States dedicated to Georgia’s application language, which would re-balance citizens’ rights versus federal power and state power, the count is 12 down, 22 to go.
For a Convention of the States dedicated to a balanced budget amendment only, the count is 30 down, 4 to go.
“they want to bypass the usual process.”
Stopped reading right there. “Usual” is a code word for ignoring Article V, just like intentionally misrepresenting the first paragraph of the 14th Amendment.
And other amendments too...
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The usual FUD. Congress can and does propose amendments all the time. Why are the concern trolls not shaking in thier boots over that process? Some of the ones Congress passed were real stinkers. No surprise they Centralized power in Washington. Most of the ones Congress sent to the states died during the process. With 3/4’s of the states needed to ratifiy any proposed amendments the worry should be the good ones that wouldn’t pass from a COS.
1. Repeal 17th amendment. Put state representation back in the Senate
2. Balanced budget with pay down
3. Sell Federal lands except national parks and military
4. Term limits for congress and SCOTUS
5. Repeal 16th Amendment
Or not
Lordy you people licked on the 17th amendment ought to go back and look at the bribery and scandal and smoke filled rooms that were characteristic of that time
Big mistake. A convention would open up the entire document to revision, threatening everything...free speech, right to bear arms, eligibility, etc. This is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Those pushing this are NOT patriots; someone get their names.
Love that word “Unprecedented” in the title. Something for which there is no precedent can’t be legal in the American system.
Except for this one tiny inconvenient fact: the precedent is some little known document called THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Maybe Associated Press heard about it?
The left never took note until they wanted to frighten the folks for getting off the plantation.
I think the “let’s amend the constitution” movement is wrong on several counts.
We cannot assume Constitutional changes mean a damn thing when Democrat administrators and judges all say the heck with the law as written, our political dogma and definition of love, kind and moral says we’ll ignore the law and rule this other way instead. The Obamacare tax is a tax and isn’t a tax is a classic example of this.
Don’t waste time and effort amending the document when Democrats will ignore it or undermine it. Focus time and effort where it matters - electing people and appointing people who respect the law as written.
We need to fix things now through legislation, enforcement of the law and court rulings to reaffirm them, not spend 20 years trying to change the Constitution.
Repeal the 16h amendment. Ban entitlements. Ban immigration.
If the left managed to hijack a constitutional convention it would be the end of America. There’s too much at stake to take such a chance. The left is too adept at obfuscation, extortion and terrorism.