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To: Hostage
Good points! The COS Project is doing precisely what you are thinking.

Thanks for the link. After looking at the site I'm afraid their strategy is exactly what I think is doomed to fail. I don't see how a convention called to address such a broad topic as reining in federal power could ever reach the needed consensus on the details.

You would have 50 delegations and who knows how many individual representatives, each with their own conception of what specific actions we need to take.

I think it's important to early on be more specific rather than less so the decisions that actually have to be made in the convention are manageable.

35 posted on 06/25/2015 10:38:51 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo; Publius

Stay tuned. You are not up to date with information and developments.

Soon there will be some knowledgeable Freepers that will show what’s been done and what’s being done by the COS Project to address your concerns.


37 posted on 06/25/2015 10:42:04 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: semimojo
Under normal circumstances, you would be correct. Fifty state delegations would meet, and the initial result would be chaos.

But the Convention of the States movement has been holding meetings of state legislators at a number of locations -- Washington's estate at Mount Vernon was one -- to discuss the kind of amendments, wording of amendments and procedures for the conduct of the Amendments Convention. Leaders at the state level are already emerging. If two thirds of the states apply for an Amendments Convention for this effort, Day One of the convention will be orderly and will apply an agenda decided upon in advance at these earlier meetings.

74 posted on 06/25/2015 11:19:37 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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