President Trump, call for a snap Constitutional Convention.

Self | 11-5-20 | Self

[StAnDeliver]

"the current president can only be ex officio..."

The President, any President, has the capacity to act as President and ex officio; to deny this is a conceit identically as NBC was destroyed under bobo; or perhaps better yet described, as if Cankles had 'shut down' the Clinton Foundation as President.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The size of SCOTUS should be fixed by amendment.

There could be an argument for fixed terms instead of “good behavior;” each two-term president should have a fixed number of nominations to SCOTUS.

If the number of SCOTUS nominees per presidential election is fixed at 2 and the number of justices on the bench is fixed at 9, that would correspond to a term of 18 years for each justice.

You could also consider having the president elected in years which are evenly divisible by 8 nominate two justices, and presidents elected in other elections only nominate one justice - which would correspond to a term of 24 years.

The other viable option, IMHO, would be to ramp up to 11 justices and allow 2 new justices every four years. Which would correspond to 22 year terms for justices.

But if you do nothing else, fix the number of justices on SCOTUS.

[StAnDeliver]

"It is appalling how people come up with ideas that are not only dangerous and incorrect, but do not understand the actual constitution . The notion of a SNAP constitutional convention would allow mob and majority rule every four years. Thank God our framers new [sic] better

This is not only a terrible idea, but an uneducated on [sic] at best."

"Hop in while you're givin' it a think..."

[gas_dr]

Well, I have learned that I should not post from a cell phone based on the tow [sic]s

I like the graphic though — well played!

[StAnDeliver]

"A new convention is an exercise in futility at best. But it would likely be hijacked by the liberals in media and education and become our worst nightmare. You think Antifa and BLM are something now? A new CC would be a disaster."

And what other impetus would finally draw patriots out of their tidy homes? When Corey Lewandowski gave a thumbs-up to finally being admitted under court order into the Pennsylvania Convention Center, there was not one single PA Trump supporter in sight.

[StAnDeliver]

My FRiend, that was #4, but to disturb SCOTUS in this particular play of the hand would be to diminish expectations.

Trump could literally change the course of the nation with a Constitutional Convention with its primary goal as the removal of Slavery's "3/5ths". If 2 and 3 were not accomplished, ok. But you enumerate them as a means of controlling the outcome. I ask for 3, you give me 1. Giving me 1 neuters the blacks-vote-Democrat paradigm for at least a generation. I don't really have to explain what that means viz the outcome of this electoral theft either way it unfolds...

[Balding_Eagle]

Seesh, let’s let him focus on the election fraud instead of a bunch of hairbrained ideas.

[GreyFriar]

The biggest change I’d like to see, short of the “snap constitutional convention,” is the abolition of the 17th Amendment. That amendment created the popular election of senators. We need to go back to having the senators appointed by state legislatures as originally in the Constitution. It was passed in 1913 and I believe its life has expired.

[BatGuano]

Nice try. If you desire a change in the Constitution, make some sense in your proposal.
Publish your “reasoning” in a Twenty First Century edition of “The New Federalist Papers.”
“Splain” yourself.

[Loud Mime]

The answer is obvious: Enforce the Constitution we have first.

[Herakles]

This government is illegal, it no longer represents its citizens but seeks to represent tech oligarchs and the rest of the world. It should therefore be declared null and void.

A new parallel government needs to be establish that will eventually take the place of the current existing regime.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Trump could literally change the course of the nation with a Constitutional Convention with its primary goal as the removal of Slavery's "3/5ths".

Unfortunately that is incorrect. An amendment doesn’t change the text of the unamended document, it merely adds language at the end which changes the meaning of the document. The Republicans spent time reading the Constitution “into the record,” as it were - and Democrats were lining up around the block to be the ones to read the “3/5” passage. Even tho it has already been made moot by the Civil War amendments, and notwithstanding the history of the provision as having been insisted upon not by slave states but by antislavery advocates.

The fundamental point being that slaves couldn’t vote, and the more “representation” they (actually their masters) had in Congress, the worse it was for the opponents of slavery.

There is no way the Constitution can suppress political dishonesty, unfortunately. And certainly no way of amending the Constitution when dishonesty is so prominent in the population on the matter.

[StAnDeliver]

You make my point, then, in a well-stated reply.

So I direct this more-detailed response to you, as I know you will understand the assertion and I in turn will appreciate any further criticism you may offer.

An Amendment campaign will never produce the desired result.

Trump instead calls a Constitutional Convention per Article V -- or in the alternative, makes this his due course for 2024 -- promising to hold it anywhere but DC, favoring metros like Jacksonville or OKC.

Once convened, we remove all language related to '3/5ths' but once unleashed, we subsume every useful Amendment into the New Constitution, particularly 2A becomes an enumerated Constitutional right without reference to 'militia'. 1A is bulwarked to include religious liberty; and religious liberty itself is advanced past the weak tea of the Establishment Clause. The Commerce Clause is specifically restrained in the New Constitution to end all of the unconstitutional stare decisis subterfuged by reference to same -- directly calling out Roberts patently illegal 'save' of Bobocare as the "showcase" to be avoided going forward.

People who are raised on the fake idea of MSM supremacy have attempted to push back on this idea of a New Constitutional Convention based on their false assumptions; but given the correct pro forma and planning, Constitutionalists would not only provide the course correction the United States desperately needs, but also perform their legitimate duties as a perimeter cordon to Conventioneers, and any incursions would be dealt with identically as a threat to CIC.

[StAnDeliver]

This Constitional Convention push is real, it's not going away, and the sooner Freepers get on board, the more control constitutional conservatives will have, once the Constitutional Convention is convened under Trump II:

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 8, 2021, TheHill.com, Reid Wilson — Conservative lawmakers will mount a new push to call a constitutional convention aimed at creating a balanced budget amendment and establishing term limits for members of Congress in an effort to rein in what they see as a runaway federal government.

State legislators meeting at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s policy conference here last week hope to use Article V of the Constitution, which allows state legislatures to call a convention to propose new amendments.

“It’s really the last line of defense that we have. Right now, the federal government’s run away. They’re not going to pull their own power back. They’re not going to restrict themselves. And so this Article V convention is really, in my opinion, is the last option that we have,” said Iowa state Rep. John Wills (R), the state’s House Speaker pro tempore who backs the convention.

At least two-thirds of states must pass a call to force a convention; so far, 15 states have passed the model legislation proposed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative group that backs free markets and states’ rights.

Bills have passed at least one legislative chamber in another nine states, and bills have been introduced in 17 more states. The 15 states that have passed measures so far all have Republican-controlled legislatures and Republican governors; another nine states totally controlled by the GOP have yet to finalize passage, according to Convention of States Action, a project of the conservative group Citizens for Self-Governance.

Once a sufficient number of states have approved a call to a convention, Congress gets to set the initial rules. Article V says any proposed amendments would have to be ratified by three-quarters of the states to take effect."