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To: Labyrinthos

“The House and Senate ought pass a rule that allows a presidential override by majority vote.”

That really doesn’t make any sense. the president has noting whatsoever to do with the Convention process. Even the US house and Senate have no real role.

“on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments”

At most the house simply ‘needs’ to keep track of the petitions in order to know when to call a Convention. Even the Federal employees in black robes have recognized that Congress’s role if any is strictly a formality.

This is the one thing they haven’t been doing for the last 200 years, that is why counting is soo critical, even more so that they intend to do so officially online. So that we the people and our States may see how they are actually counting or not counting the petitions.

This is huge! Its very difficult to understate how important this mere rule is, although nobody outside of our states seems to have yet realizes it.

We are now firmly and perhaps irretrievably on the path toward Constitutional Convention. The circulation of a revolution that has taken place in the grass roots of Constitutional conservatism at the State level where it matters.

The next step is paying attention to that site and carefully scrutinizing how they count the petitions of our States, in light of the Constitutional ambiguity of Article 5 which says nothing whatsoever about the Contents of said petitions.

This is important because already even before the latest state level Revolution in the last 6 years There were already petitions for a 2nd Constitutional Convention filed by 48 of the 50 States over the last 100 years. All of which have so far fallen upon Congress’s Deaf ears.

This is why even still Our State legislators may very well have to start counting the petitions themselves, while also threatening to organizing the Convention themselves on a particular date among those States willing.

Remember not every state must attend, Rhode Island for example did not attend the Convention of 1787, and indeed it would be very much preferable to our cause of liberty that they and many other liberal states ‘miss’/boycott this one as well.

So you can see this is a fantastic position for us and our State legislators to be in.

Now all we have to do is watch this number carefully and publicly dispute its inaccurate count, while threatening to organize a convention ourselves on the basis of those calls which have already been made or are being made. Congress will probably fall in line knowing we have the power and legitimacy to create a real Constitutional Crisis should they refuse to do their job because is it never was their job to start with, it was ours.


34 posted on 01/09/2015 2:38:36 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise

“We are now firmly and perhaps irretrievably on the path toward Constitutional Convention.”

fortunately, not so.
It’s just a routine Convention of the States to propose amendments to the Constitution.


42 posted on 01/09/2015 3:05:06 PM PST by dontreadthis
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