Posted on 04/13/2019 12:14:20 PM PDT by Jacquerie
The next generation of conservative leaders have been watching and waiting for a cause where they can make a tangible difference and be a part of history in the making. For years, they felt hopeless.
But today, the scene looks very different.
Ben Shapiro has teamed up with Convention of States to funnel his millions of young listeners into the fight to call a Convention of States.
In a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of young activists have flooded into the movement, taking on leadership positions, and being trained to take back their power from Washington, D.C.
These are their stories.
Shelby M., San Antonio, Texas, State Content Writer
“When Ben Shapiro mentioned the Convention of States on his podcast, that was all I needed to dive in and investigate. I had spent years feeling powerless and frustrated with the growing size and corruption of the federal government, but with COS, I suddenly saw the opportunity to DO something! Instead of just complaining, I could be a part of a team that was working toward a solution. It was so empowering!”
(Excerpt) Read more at conventionofstates.com ...
The repeal amendment needs a provision to prohibit political party support for federal lawmakers and POTUS.
Another provision is needed requiring prospective candidates for federal office to prove knowledge of the following excerpts from Thomas Jefferson, congressional record, and SCOTUS case opinions in order to actually become a non-political party-supported candidate.
“A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” —Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphasis added]." —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe (See middle of third column.)
"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphases added] of indemnity against loss.” —Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance, regardless if buyer and seller are domeciled in different states.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that the constitutional limit on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And if PDJT wants to be president for more than two terms, repeal 22nd Amendment. After all, given the fed's constitutionally limited powers for domestic policy, PDJT could spend most of third term on golf course.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Shapiro is a pain in the ass but necessary. A convention would have to happen after Trump is reelected. Let the chips fall where they may including the pardoning of Sirhan Sirhan.
All right! Someone else might be doing something.
There is no explanation. One isn’t expected when shouting fire from a crowded theatre. It’s a fear tactic made by those that do not understand COS, its process or fears great change for more of the status quo
Wrong answer. If this Convention goes out of the bounds upon which it is called the application is voided. Voiding an application is already a done deal, otherwise a convention for a Balanced Budget would have already qualified. Also applications under various reasons would imply they have to limit themselves to the reason it was called, otherwise Article V could have been invoked numerous times. Wisconsin actually sent a request to Congress at one point saying the Convention had to be called already. Congress clearly set the precedent by not honoring that demand.
What you describe as the person you prefer is an ideologue which is one of the most dangerous people in a republic and part of the reason the county got to the mess it is in in the first place. Ideologues are some of the most dangerous people roaming. Antifa is filled with ideologues. I’d much rather have an intellectual who takes an opposing view to my own and provide me solid reasons to those positions than an ideologue hell bent and driven on an agenda that blindly walks without looking at opposing viewpoints. An ideologue is akin to the child who hold his hands over his ears screaming lalalallala when he doesn’t like to hear something that may trump his dogmatic positions.
It’s great to see young people realize that voting, in and of itself, is insufficient effort to restore free government!
“Personally, I think a COS is a bad idea. If it ever actually happens, it WILL be taken over by radical dems, and our republic will be gone.”
This is my fear as well!
Somebody better get after the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact right pronto. This would throw the state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. About as evil and fiendish as it gets.
Interesting. BUMP!
Just call a COS to repeal everything that has been added to the constitution in the last 110 years.
It was pretty damn good before the turn of the last century.
Check out post #25
Democratize presidential elections and it is game over. That’s it. We’ll fall into the abyss of factions tearing each other apart, only to be “saved” by a strongman who promises to restore order.
People are fearful of what they are ignorant of
Not to mention that the results have to be ratified by 34 states. If the libs can hijack that whole process we might as well get it over with
Yes. “Experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
My kid is trans and thinks feminists are cancer. She shredded Clinton’s candidacy and won a spot on the debate team.
Don’t write off all transpeople. Some are political conservatives, even if their adrenal system is jacked up.
Rolling my eyes.
38 states. Need 3/4s for ratification.
I believe millennials are not the snowflakes that the news are saying. I mean, some might be out protesting, but others are out going to school and working.
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