Posted on 12/06/2013 11:09:38 AM PST by vg0va3
There is a local connection to a national effort aimed at amending the U.S. Constitution through the convention process..
Amending the Constitution is not an easy task. It requires either a two-thirds vote by both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate; or, a national convention requested by two-thirds 34 of the 50 states.
The Arizona Legislature adopted a resolution in 2012 calling for a nat,
What do these lawmakers want to change?
A website that lists all of the state legislators involved in the effort points to re-establishing federalism and limiting the growth of the federal government.
The Caucus believes an Article V convention is the most efficacious means of meeting our goals, and will encourage the States to adopt resolutions to call for such a convention. But we also believe that a convention is only the means to that end, and will always keep a focus on the goal of federalism and limited-government, as stated on that website at www.articlevcaucus.com.
Empowering the states and re-establishing federalism may be one way to stop the federal government from spending money, but we cant help but think it is also a path toward the elimination of civil rights, workplace protections, enforcement of food and drug standards, interstate commerce, and a few other huge responsibilities that more than 200 years as a nation have already taught us are a necessary role for the federal government.
Once again, instead of solving local problems and Arizona has plenty of them our state lawmakers feel it is their duty to take on the federal government to save us from the evils of Washington.
A grand distraction that promises to have limited effectiveness, if any, in helping the people
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