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Wisconsin Senate approves calling constitutional convention (state #16)
news8000.com ^ | 1/25/22

Posted on 01/25/2022 12:01:06 PM PST by cotton1706

Wisconsin has become the 16th state to call for a convention of the states to consider making a variety of changes to the U.S. Constitution, a move that drew bipartisan opposition in the state Senate but not enough to block its approval.

The resolution had passed 15 states, mostly in the South, before Wisconsin became the first since Mississippi in 2019 to approve it. Congress must receive requests from 34 states to convene a convention of the states.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: conventionofstates
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To: PIF; libertylover; DannyTN; no-to-illegals; redgolum; dsrtsage

The states will send delegates/commissioners with detailed instructions and not reps with plenary power to vote as they wish.


21 posted on 01/25/2022 12:29:13 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: DannyTN

a write up that argues that the convention would be limited in scope and any proposed amendments coming out of the convention must be ratified by 38 states.

Do you know of any incidence that liberals did not cheat?

Gun rights - gone
Freedom of speech - gone
Freedom of religion - gone
Voter ID - gone.
Voting drop boxes - in

Basically, the first 10 Amendments will be eliminated or rendered harmless. The Media will gleefully pile on the liberal agenda here.


22 posted on 01/25/2022 12:29:28 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cotton1706

The FR COS Disinformation Squad will be all over this thread.

The Deep Stae fears a COS more than anything, and they have an army of Useless Idiots ready to spam threads.

“It will be the end of the US!” they claim, but cannot explain exactly how.

All: Read the Constitution, Article V.


23 posted on 01/25/2022 12:30:14 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Repeal the 17th would be the place to start.


Right after the liberal activists and the media repeal the first 10 ...


24 posted on 01/25/2022 12:30:25 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jacquerie

So....

How well has that worked in the past? I seem to remember something called “The contract with America.”


25 posted on 01/25/2022 12:32:13 PM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Jacquerie

The states will send delegates/commissioners with detailed instructions and not reps with plenary power to vote as they wish.

Sure they will /s ... and the liberals and assistant democrats will rule - all stops will be pulled out like the 2020 election. The USA will become a one party state under a lifetime dictator.


26 posted on 01/25/2022 12:32:49 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

I said that in my previous posts. I was just responding to a post to me.


27 posted on 01/25/2022 12:33:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: PIF

This might be a blessing in disguise. Maybe THEN people will get off their butts and take action. I doubt it though.


28 posted on 01/25/2022 12:36:04 PM PST by GingisK
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To: madprof98

[[great opportunity to split up the country. They can have most of it]]

We will give them minesota- The rest is ours


29 posted on 01/25/2022 12:37:10 PM PST by Bob434
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To: PIF
And I'm not sure that it would or could be limited in scope.

It helps if 38 states do have to ratify each and every amendment that comes out of it.

Republicans control more state legislatures.


30 posted on 01/25/2022 12:37:11 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: PIF

So you prefer the current arrangement, where unelected judges gradually reduce Americans to medieval serfdom?


31 posted on 01/25/2022 12:45:53 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: cotton1706

After the Supreme Court stupidly decided that states weren’t allowed to have legislative assemblies based on regions rather than population, Nebraska is the only state smart enough to have a unicameral system.


32 posted on 01/25/2022 1:01:13 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: cotton1706
Must revolution be violent? Must men meet on the battlefield to affect change? Must revolution upend an older society and replace it with a new one? Wouldn’t a 21st century restoration of free American government without resort to violence be revolutionary?

Pennsylvania’s Framer James Wilson thought so:

This revolution principle–that, the sovereign power residing in the people, they may change their constitution and government whenever they please–is not a principle of discord, rancor, or war: it is a principle of melioration, contentment, and peace. It is a principle not recommended merely by a flattering theory: it is a principle recommended by happy experience. To the testimony of Pennsylvania–to the testimony of the United States I appeal for the truth of what I say.

Article V and Rational Revolution.

33 posted on 01/25/2022 1:02:34 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
This is the usual boilerplate that I post to these threads to explain the Article V process. I've had this information vetted by a retired professor of constitutional law.

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THE ARTICLE V AMENDATORY PROCESS

The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps:

  1. Proposal;
  2. Direction;
  3. Ratification.

Proposal:

There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.

Article V gives Congress and an amendments convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, except that a convention is limited to proposing amendments specified in the application and there is no such limit on Congress.

Direction:

Once Congress, or an amendments convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:

The state ratifying convention method has only been used once: to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition. A similar procedure was used to ratify the Constitution itself.

Ratification:

Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three fourths of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.

Forbidden Subjects:

Article V contains two explicitly forbidden subjects and two implicitly forbidden subjects.

Explicitly forbidden:

  1. No amendment may be added to the Constitution concerning the slave trade or direct taxes until 1808. We’re well past that deadline.
  2. No amendment may be added to the Constitution to change the principle of equal representation in the Senate unless every state deprived of that right approves. If California wants five senators, every state must have five senators. To permit violation of this principle, every state would have to ratify the amendment, not just three fourths.

Implicitly forbidden:

  1. The Constitution of 1787 may not be abrogated and replaced with a new document. Article V only authorizes “a convention for proposing amendments to this Constitution;” so the Constitution of 1787 is locked in place.
  2. A convention for proposing amendments is limited to the topics authorized by state applications.

Reference works:

Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States: A Handbook for State Lawmakers

34 posted on 01/25/2022 1:11:34 PM PST by Publius
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To: Jacquerie

I don’t belong to JBS. I do see where liberals steal elections. Don’t you ?


35 posted on 01/25/2022 1:12:52 PM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them )
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To: madprof98

” They can have most of it if we can just get them out of our hair.”

No.


36 posted on 01/25/2022 1:14:51 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Jacquerie

You may want to think on that comment


37 posted on 01/25/2022 1:17:36 PM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them )
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To: jjotto

So you prefer the current arrangement, where unelected judges gradually reduce Americans to medieval serfdom?

So you would prefer to live under a dictatorship?


38 posted on 01/25/2022 1:18:00 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: no-to-illegals

Count on it.


39 posted on 01/25/2022 1:21:26 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: PIF

If 38 state legislatures are willing to impose “dictatorship”, there’s no hope anyway.


40 posted on 01/25/2022 1:22:06 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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