(From VitacoreVision):”Liberals are going to hijack the Constitutional Convention.”
It’s not a “Constitutional Convention” but an Article V Convention of States to propose amendments, two very different things.
As far as the concept, the group with the best concept IMO is the Citizens for Self-Governance proposal for a Convention of States limited to a prepared agenda of SUBJECTS (not per-written amendments). Only those agreed-upon subjects will be on the agenda to hammer out proposed amendment(s).
http://conventionofstates.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/COS_Handbook.pdf
Example of topics for proposed amendments are.
- A balanced budget amendment.
- Reducing federal spending power (fixing the General Welfare Clause).
- Reducing federal regulatory power (fixing the Commerce Clause).
- A prohibition of using international treaties and law to govern the domestic law of the United States.
- Limitation on Executive Orders and Administrative Agency Law.
- Imposing substantive checks on the Supreme Court including term limits.
- A limit on federal taxation.
The only one I don’t support is the balanced budget amendment because it give politicians “wiggle room” to justify raising taxes. The key is LIMITING SPENDING and the size of the federal government. I would also add another topic for a proposed amendment.
The rest of my last post...
I would also add another topic for a proposed amendment:
Limit federal enforcement power over the first ten amendments (fix the 14th Amendment to its original intent: ONLY a prohibition on state segregation laws (as confirmed by the Supreme Court in the Slaughterhouse Cases in 1872).
Whatever.
If it’s hijacked by the left, those conservative amendments will never see the light of day.
That said: the problem we have in 2014 is that the Federal government is ignoring the Constitution AND its own laws!
I don’t know what good new amendments are going to do when the Fed ignores the old amendments.