We have our fifth state for the COS project.
Posted on 02/04/2016 3:45:59 PM PST by cotton1706
Tennessee lawmakers on Thursday joined four other states in calling for a national convention on amending the U.S. Constitution to bring about limits to federal power — what one supporter touted as the "atomic bomb of politics."
The resolution sponsored by Republican Rep. Sheila Butt of Columbia passed on a 59-31 vote in the House. The Senate previously voted 23-5 in favor of the measure. The governor does not have veto power over resolutions passed by the Tennessee General Assembly.
Tennessee joins Alabama, Alaska, Florida and Georgia in approving the measure. A total of 34 states would need to pass the resolution for the convention to be called.
Republican Rep. Judd Matheny of Tullahoma, a supporter of the measure, said the resolution should serve as a signal to the federal government that state legislatures are serious about wanting a greater say.
"This is the atomic bomb of politics," Matheny said. "The federal movement must know the states have mobilized, and we have put an atomic bomb on a plane and it is flying over the District of Columbia. And if they don't listen, then we're going to get done what needs to get done."
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We have our fifth state for the COS project.
Could probably do that to get rid of the alphabet soup agencies. We already have the 10th amendment, but the federal government obviously ignores it.
Want to limit the powers of the Federal Government and their cramming progressive ideology down America’s throat?
end the Federal Reserve. A free-market currency, out of the control of politicians, central planners and crony-capitalists will starve government of the printed money and debt it needs to survive. America became the largest economy and greatest power in the world without any soviet-style central planning.
yes, its that simple.
They don’t follow the current Constitution they won’t follow a new amended one either.
Is it odd that 4 of the 5 adjoin?
Four out of five are form the Old Confederacy.
The South will rise again!
That is exactly why the effort should go toward the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Can’t cheat on that one.
Who’d a thunk it????
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The federal entity observes the Constitution to the very letter. Unfortunately, it's the Living Constitution, the Constitution of Penumbras and Emanations, the Constitution whose meaning changes even though the words remain the same, the Constitution empretzeled by two centuries of case law and precedent, that the federal entity observes.
It does not observe the Constitution of Original Intent that Robert Bork called "the Constitution in Exile." It is this issue that 5 states so far wish to remedy. The chances of Congress formulating and passing an amendment that trims federal power are slim and none. Only the states, through the Framers' Article V Convention mechanism, can formulate such an amendment and put the federal entity back in the constitutional prison that Madison designed for it.
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Don’t worry, trump will just cancel the whole thing with an executive order.
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Let him snicker.
Note that the Founding States had originally given the power to vote for federal senators uniquely to state legislatures.
But state lawmakers foolishly ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A) in 1913, foolishly giving up their voices in Congress by doing so. State lawmakers caved in to pressure by citizens who had been spooked by the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement and ratified 17A.
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SCOTUS has even declared the Declaration of Independence to be of no effect.
Amendment for term limits.......
After the compromising and bending over [you expect those Pubbies in the COS to be any different from the ones you send to DC?], we will get a watered down First Amendment and Second Amendment and room for Sharia Law to grow.
How else are they going to get Dems to go along with other recommendations?
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Soros, the Koch Brothers, and every other wealthy entity will have their representatives inside, too.
It is very unlikely that the collective wisdom of the people at a new constitutional convention will equal that of the founding fathers.
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