The current Constitution is not followed. What makes anyone think amendments from a Convention of States will anymore be followed?
Canceling some and adding satanic new ones?
Oh yes, it is! The federal entity follows the Constitution to the letter. Unfortunately, itâs the Living Constitution, not the Constitution of the Framers, that it follows. (Robert Bork called the latter âthe Constitution in Exile.â)
So what is the Living Constitution? Itâs what happened to the Constitution of the Framers after 200+ years of case law, some of it good, but much of it bad. The bad case law was mostly agenda-driven. Some of the agenda was âthe Constitution of a horse-and-buggy nation in the automobile ageâ (FDR) to âa Constitution unfit for a modern democracyâ (modern progressives).
A Convention of the States permits the states to use constitutional amendments to sharpen the language to make the kind of structural changes that would rein in the federal entity. For example, shouldnât Congress, the first branch of government and that most representative of the people, have the right to overturn decisions of the judiciary that go too far? How about the states? Shouldnât Congress be subject to term limits, like the president? Shouldnât states have the right to nullify acts of Congress that go too far, via a structured constitutional method? You can be sure that these kinds of amendments would never pass Congress. Structural changes that bind the federal entity can only come from the states.