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To: HLPhat
Due to the 2014 elections, a large majority of state legislatures are in the hands of Republicans. The Obama constituency does not come out in big numbers for off-year elections, which explains Republican victories last year and in 2010.

If 34 states (2/3 of the 50 states) vote for an "Article V" convention, then the convention can meet, a fact that the neither current occupant of the White House nor the Supreme Court can change. Congress cannot stop it either. The delegates from the states can be instructed, under penalty of felony under state law, to limit the scope of the convention to a few issues, such as ending Federal court jurisdiction over marriage. This would prevent a convention from overturning the existing Constitution, as had been done by the 1787 convention that eliminated the Articles of Confederation. After propossed amendments are passed by the convention, 3/4 (38) of the state legislatures must ratify any amendments approved by the convention. This process bypasses Congress entirely.

Timing is everything. We may be at the high tide of Republican influence at the state level.

57 posted on 02/10/2015 7:42:09 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

“Article V” won’t change the culture of the tyrannical majority who will pervert the work product of a convention in the same way that they’ve perverted everything else within their purview.

The only thing wrong with the present constitution is IT ISN’T BEING ENFORCED.


113 posted on 02/10/2015 5:21:04 PM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: Wallace T.

>>a large majority of state legislatures are in the hands of Republicans.

Hands?

RINOs don’t have the calloused hands for the craftsmanship of America’s founders - they just have lying mouths derived from a craft of another kind.

These manipulative self-serving dipshytes have repeatedly demonstrated that fact and they can all go to Hell as Nature imposes its consequence upon the self-worshiping culture that created and climbed into its own state-established jackwagon.

Got Romans 1:25+ ?

As for me and my family - we will serve the Creator.


123 posted on 02/11/2015 6:30:20 AM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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