”… by calling for a constitutional convention to establish term limits, a balanced budget amendment and restrictions on the Commerce Clause."v
Noting that I am no fan of Jeb Bush, please consider the following.
I have a problem with amending the Constitution as a solution to stopping criminal activity in any of the three branches of the federal government. I say leave the Constitution alone and impeach the crooks out of the system instead.
On the other hand, the states should consider amending the Constitution to give themselves the power to impeach and remove crooks from federal office since corrupt Congress has shown that it cannot be trusted to do so.
In fact, that’s one of the reasons why I gladly voted for, “You’re Fired!,” Trump.
Regarding term limits, the problem is that corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting POTUS and non-elected bureaucrats get away with stealing and exercising state powers to harass the sovereign states. So regardless if the constitutional terms limits of such lawmakers have been reached and the lawmakers are out of office, the non-elected bureaucrats that they hired while in office are still in the system doing their dirty work.
Patriot need to work with Trump to make lawmakers take full responsibility for all federal legislative / regulatory actions as mandated by the Constitution.
Regarding balanced budget, previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And a Section 8-compliant budget would probably cost taxpayers much less than a non-Section 8-compliant balanced budget.
Regarding restrictions on the Commerce Clause (1.8.3), simply get rid of the perversion of that clause by FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
In fact, FDR’s justices wrongly ignored that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the corrupt feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Thanks for posting that. Very good points.
You make some good points.