It makes perfect sense. The Left owns Rome-on-the-Potomac and can gain nothing from amending the constitution they soil every day. Patriots have nothing to lose, and everything to gain from a state amendment convention.
I guess the democRats don’t believe their own propaganda!
"state amendment proposal convention."
Yes, Justice John Bingham's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes needs to be enumerated into the Constitution.
... limit the power and jurisdiction of the Federal Government, and limit the terms of office for federal officials and members of Congress.“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.
The Founding States had made the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I to deliberately limit (cripple) Congress's powers. So what's the new amendment supposed to do besides say "See Section 8 of Article I?"
Also, although I will support a term limits amendment, if patriots stop the tsunami of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes then nobody is going to want to be a member of Congress anyway imo.
What we need is an amendment which allows states to recall bad-apple members of Congress with a provision to allow 2/3 of all state legislatures to recall bad-apple members of a given state.
The ill-conceived Progressive Movement 16th Amendment needs to be repealed too.
We need an amendment that gives 3/4 of the state legislatures the power to recall or impeach activist justices since corrupt Congress cannot be expected to do the job.
If by state amendment convention you mean a Constitutional Convention, that's not completely true. The last Constitutional Convention in 1787 was a runaway and produced our current constitution. Which is different than the constitution ratified from the Articles of Confederation. In more ways than just the Bill of Rights.
We could end up having an amendment to the US Constitution that negates the 2nd or the 4th.
Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
I suspect that the 5 Democrats who opposed resolution don't understand that Congress has been stealing state revenues from Florida in the form of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes.
“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.
I hope lots of pro Article V convention legislators are elected in November!
Awesome!!! Congratulations to the Patriots of Georgia, the last of the original 13, from the Patriots of Arizona, the last of the contiguous 48!
The timing is interesting here, in that just after the 2014 mid-terms, I imagine that other states will start to join in, leading up to the 2016 presidential race. With a far more conservative Republican congress, and hopefully a Republican president, an Article V convention in 2017 would be far more likely.
Fair warning, security for such a convention will have to be ridiculously tight, because there will be a legion of lobbyists, terrorists, spies, scoundrels, billionaires, Wall Street speculators, insane people, you name it, trying to force their way in.
The delegates will almost have to be sequestered to protect them and their families. All communications to and from the convention will have to be air tight, possibly even carried by couriers, kept out of the view of all who would spy on it. It should be limited to messages to and from the state legislatures, which should be open to inspection after receipt.
The US military should only be used for the “outer ring” of security, with security personnel in the interior rings sworn to defend the *convention*.
Seriously, security for this is going to have to be intensely paranoid, as not just the future of the United States is at stake, but the future of the entire world.
If at all possible, an enabling law should be passed making interference with the convention in any way a major felony, and authorizing the use of deadly force in all sorts of circumstances. If there is a major assault, or detected espionage, the convention may need to sit as a jury, whose decisions cannot be excused, commuted or pardoned.
the dems know exactly what is going to happen to them with an article 5 convention.
Today is sine die for the Georgia Legislature.
(we rednecks call it “sign or die” referring to the fate of the various bills in the hopper.)
What a great day for Article V! Our bill here in Arizona just passed out of the House Government Committee with a DO PASS recommendation!!! 4 Republicans voted Yea, all the Democrats didn’t.
Shock.
On to the senate...
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Sounds about right.
Somehow Democrats equate giving themselves more authority of the federal government to picking cotton on the plantation.
Proof that a mind is a terrible thing to waste.