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1 posted on 04/02/2014 11:45:21 AM PDT by 12th_Monkey
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To: 12th_Monkey

There is NO “Constitutional Convention” proposed by MI or Mark Levin, or anybody else today. We hand one “Constitutional Convention” in 1789, and under THIS Constitution, ONLY conventions to propose amendments are Constitutional.

Furthermore, not all Article-V conventions are the same... they always have a Call Topic.

In the case of MI, it is for a balance budget amendment. PERIOD.A BBA amendment convention is VERY narrowly focused, and would produce one amendment.

In the case of the COS and Levin, it is to reign-in the federal govt. PERIOD. A COS might produce a few to a half-dozen or so amendments (term limits, abolish the 17th, and a few others).


2 posted on 04/02/2014 12:00:14 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: 12th_Monkey

All that would emerge is the still intact, coerced union with the Bill of Rights tossed out and the Declaration of Independence deemed seditious, which in context, probably is.

We are a totalitarian state along these lines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_democracy

Only one or the other or a combination of two things will change the status quo, or something even worse than the status quo:
1) Overthrow of the Washington government by internal or external enemies, or
2) sovereign bankruptcy and dissolution.


3 posted on 04/02/2014 12:03:19 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: 5thGenTexan; AllAmericanGirl44; Amagi; Art in Idaho; Arthur Wildfire! March; Arthur McGowan; ...

Ping.


4 posted on 04/02/2014 12:06:58 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: sickoflibs; BillyBoy
Did a recent call from Michigan for action on balancing the budget hit the two-thirds mark?

Um, no.

9 posted on 04/02/2014 1:39:40 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: 12th_Monkey
Mark Levin is the most prominent advocate for it, and his reasoning is solid.

His reasoning might be solid, but for the fact that the government operates heedless to the Constitution we have. His proposed Liberty Amendments on the other fall egregiously short of dealing with the most obvious and egregious flaws in the original document. hence, this idea of Levin's has dropped him in my estimation considerably.

11 posted on 04/02/2014 2:02:07 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

35 posted on 04/02/2014 5:56:30 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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